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BY 

JAMES IRVING 

Author of "The Irving System of Story and Play Writing, ' 

"How New Writers Succeed" "The A B C of 

Successful Writing" "The Ten Great 

Secrets of Successful Authorship," 

Etc., Etc. 



THE AUTHORS' PRESS 

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1920 



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TABLE OF CONTENTS. 



Chapter Page 

I. Standard Magazines 9 

II. Women's and Household Periodicals 34 

III. Where to Sell Photoplays 45 

IV. Juvenile Publications 53 

V. Agricultural and Allied Periodicals 66 

VI. Eeligious Publications 78 

VII. Educational Publications 90 

VIII. Where to SeU Songs • 94 

IX. Newspapers 102 

X. Newspaper Syndicates 113 

XI. Sporting and Allied Publications 119 

XII. Markets for Humor 124 

XIII. Markets for Photographs 126 

XIV. Photoplay Magazines 133 

XV. Dramatic and Theatrical Journals 136 

XVI. Producers of Plays ,. ..138 

XVII. Musical Magazines 144 

XVIII. Art Magazines .146 

XIX. Markets for Verse 148 

XX. Book Publishers 150 

XXI. Foreign Periodicals 155 

XXII. Foreign Book Publishers 158 

XXIII. Agencies That Sell Manuscripts on Commission 161 

XXIV. The Copyright Law 163 



PREFACE. 

The author of this book is especially anxious to 
acknowledge with grateful appreciation and thanks the 
kind co-operation of practically every editor he called 
upon to furnish information for trfis list of markets. 

It is due to the generous and helpful spirit of these 
genial editors that it has been possible to compile this 
work. 

The Author. 



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some of the Musical Magazines. Maybe you have 
composed a song or song-poem. Turn to the lists of 
Music Publishers, many of which are listed. 

Perhaps you paint china or dabble in some other 
phase of art. Why not cash in on this little hobby? 
Sell some of your knowledge to the Art Magazines. 

We could go on indefinitely pointing out ways in 
which you can utilize the knowledge in this unusual 
book. The above, however, should serve to indicate to 
you in a general way its marvelous money-making pos- 
sibilities. 

The Publishers. 



CHAPTER I. 
STANDARD MAGAZINES. 

ADVENTURE, SPRING AND MACDOUGAL 
STS., NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Arthus S. 
Hoffman, Editor. States that in its fiction clearness 
and simplicity are essential, for they are both a requis- 
ite of good literature and a surety that all who read 
will understand. Insists on convincingness, or truth 
to life and human nature. Characters must seem like 
real people, not mere names. The reader must believe 
it happened. Inconsistencies and improbabilities, even 
in little things, ruin a story. Wants stories of action 
and adventure, in its broadest sense among almost any 
kind of people, and in almost any place. Stories of the 
United States, its possessions and Canada are always 
welcomed, as well as tales of foreign lands. Uses 
stories of even the remote past, but only occasionally; 
also stories of the future, but even less often. Stories 
of the sea are especially desired. All stories must be 
clean and wholesome, but without preaching or moral- 
izing. Does not like stories in which crime is glorified 
or triumphs in the end. Uses fact articles, but very 
few. Chances are better with material worked up into 
fiction form. Autobiographical material has almost 
no chance of acceptance. Always wants good humor- 
ous stories. Takes tales of pathos or tragedy, but not 
if they are morbid or leave the reader depressed or 
with a "bad taste in his mouth." Love interest added 
to a story of adventure is good, but not if it is the main 
feature of the tale. Does NOT want : Problem stories, 
sex stories, psychological stories, sophisticated stories, 
stories that glorify crime, stories that "couldn't hap- 
pen" or supernatural stories. Uses some poetry, mostly 
1 6 lines or under. None over 36 lines, unless they are 
narrative with a real story in them. Good quatrains 



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desired. Takes short stories of any length. Serials 
from 60,000 to 120,000 words. Novels and novel- 
ettes, complete in one issue, 15,000 to 75,000. 

AINSLEE'S MAGAZINE, 79-89 SEVENTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Robert 
R. Whiting, Editor. See STREET AND SMITH 
for general requirements. Uses stories of general in- 
terest, love theme desired. Uses one complete novel- 
ette and from eight to twelve crisp, live short stories 
each issue. 

ALL-STORY WEEKLY, 280 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. R. H. Davis, Editor. 
See Frank A. Munsey Company for general require- 
ments of the Munsey Publications. 

AMERICAN AMBITION, 422 LAND TITLE 
BLDG., PHILA., PA. Monthly. Delbert E. Daven- 
port, Editor. Uses experiences of people whom in- 
spiration in some one of the arts and endeavors of life 
has led on though unrecognized. Magazine founded 
for the purpose of bringing out unacknowledged and 
budding talent in the writing of novels, poems, stories, 
plays, etc. Runs prize contests for amateurs and as- 
pirants. The motto of the magazine is mutual help 
and co-operation among all those who are trying to 
climb the ladder of fame and accomplishment. 

AMERICAN MAGAZINE, 381 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. John M. Si- 
dall, Editor. Mr. Sidall reports : "At the present time 
our chief need is for good short stories around 4,000 
to 6,000 words in length. We cannot use them longer 
than this. Stories for us must have good characteriza- 
tion, be convincing in tone and American in atmo- 
sphere and environment. They must also be optimistic. 
We cannot use tragic or morbid material, or stories 
that leave one with a feeling of depression. We are 
also in the market for sketches for our Interesting 



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People department. These run to about 1,000 words 
in length and concern ordinary people who have made 
extraordinary use of their opportunities and surround- 
ings. Short material for our Family Finance depart- 
ment is also required. We want to hear how people 
have saved, what rules they followed, how they have 
been enabled to put by extra money — in short any ma- 
terial pertaining to the family purse from which our 
readers can get helpful suggestions." 

ARGONAUT, 406 SUTTER ST, SAN FRAN- 
CISCO, Calif. Weekly. Alfred Holman, Editor. 
Want 1,000 to 3,000 word stories, strong, active and 
vigorous, of interest to westerners preferably. Humor 
is desired and sex material is tabooed. 

ARGOSY, 280 BROADWAY, NEW YORK 
CITY. Weekly. Matthew White, Jr., Editor. See 
Frank A. Munsey Company for general requirements 
of the Munsey Publications. 

THE ATLANTIC MONTHLY, 41 MOUNT 
VERNON ST, BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. El- 
lery Sedgwick, Editor. This publication maintains a 
very high literary standard and the writer contemplat- 
ing sending material to this place would do well first 
to secure a copy. All material should be faultless in 
literary craftsmanship and timely and entertaining in 
content. Articles should reflect the progress of the 
world in any of its most peculiar, significant and in- 
teresting phases, in art, science, finance, national 
movements, etc. Material, besides being skillfully 
executed, must be authoritative and sound. Some of 
the articles border on the essay type of script, espe- 
cially those that touch upon mental conditions or gen- 
eral phases, yet the articles must be entertaining, prac- 
tical, instructive and original. Uses a few stories in 
which plot or action is subordinate to character sketch- 
ing; or to the illumination of some theme or idea. 
Uses a few poems. 



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THE BLACK CAT MAGAZINE, INC., 229 
WEST 28TH ST., NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. 
This publication is devoted entirely to short stories of 
from 1,000 to 5,000 words. Wants short stories that 
present in rapid-fire fashion some one of the many 
sides of human nature, and that concentrate all the 
action and situation of plot in bringing out* the mani- 
festation of some peculiar characteristic in a startling, 
original, though plausible, fashion. 

BLUE BOOK, NORTH AMERICAN BLDG., 
CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Karl Edwin Harriman, 
Editor. States: "For our Blue Book Magazine we 
are continuously publishing stories of mystery, adven- 
ture and business, appealing to the average, alert, 
wide-awake American man.". 

THE BOOKMAN, 244 MADISON AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. E. F. Saxton, Editor. 
Uses articles, accounts, experiences, interpretations, 
forecasts, summaries, news items, reflections, etc., all 
of interest to the book reader. Uses estimates and 
reviews of books and writers, conditions in book-sell- 
ing, book-writing and book-buying; biographies of 
past and present writers; forecasts of future tastes in 
books, explanations and summaries of past tendencies; 
experiences by writers, readers, etc., of interest to the 
book-lover. Uses, usually, several humorous anec- 
dotes from people of literary repute or not. 

BOOK NEWS MONTHLY, PHILA., PA. 
Monthly. Norma B. Caron, Editor. As the title of 
this publication suggests, articles, anecdotes and para- 
graphs pertaining to matters literary are mostly in de- 
mand. Whenever possible, suitable photographs 
should accompany articles. Only an occasional short 
story. 

BOOKS AND AUTHORS, 318 WEST 39TH 
ST., NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Frederick 



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Moore, Editor. Can use any kind of interesting ar- 
ticle pertaining to books, past and present, and to their 
writers, past and present. Studies of present-day 
writers through the medium of the interview are al- 
ways acceptable. This magazine is not technical or 
highbrow, but aims to interest the ordinary book- 
lover. 

BREEZY STORIES, 112 EAST 19TH ST., 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Courtland Young, 
Editor. A purely fiction magazine in whose stories 
and verse is reflected a strong sex interest. Stories 
should be bright, "breezy," daring and unconven- 
tional, but should not overstep the bounds of good 
taste. They should range between 1,000 and 6,000 
words. Uses novelettes of from 15,000 to 40,000 
words. Verse, as fiction, should be smart or witty, or 
should reflect the more frothy, lighter moods and ex- 
periences of life and emotions. 

CANADIAN COURIER, 181 SIMCOE ST., 
TORONTO, ONT., CAN. Weekly. Augustus 
Bridle, Editor. In the market for strong, fascinating 
stories, 2,000 to 7,000 words, featuring love or adven- 
ture. Humorous stories always welcome. Contribu- 
tors should remember this is a Canadian magazine 
and the Canadian atmosphere is to be preferred. Uses 
informative articles regarding Canadian activities, 
movements, people, etc. Has departments relative to 
the household and concerning women's activities, lit- 
erature, art, economic conditions, etc. Photographs 
relating to any of the above are desired. 

CANADIAN MAGAZINE, TORONTO, ONT., 
CAN. Monthly. Newton MacTavish, Editor. 
Uses illustrated articles, Canadian in atmosphere. 

CENTURY MAGAZINE, 353 FOURTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. T. R. Smith, 
Editor. Material for this magazine must maintain 



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the lofty literary standards of the publication. Uses 
both stories and articles. Stories should treat themes 
in a manner that will bring out effectively new aspects 
of life or should combine fiction materials in such a 
manner as to bring out undeniably original effects of 
idea, character, emotion, or such. Articles must be 
authoritative, unassailable and exact, and may deal 
with modern topics. Conducts a department, "In 
Lighter Vein," which will absorb jokes, verse, skits, 
etc. Some verse is used. 

CLUB FELLOW AND WASHINGTON MIR- 
ROR, BOX 224, MADISON SQUARE BRANCH, 
NEW YORK. Weekly. Frank D. Mullan, Editor. 
All fiction and verse for this periodical should reflect 
the fashionable life in mood and content. Short 
stories should not exceed 2,000 words and, like the 
verse, should be snappy and breezy in character. Uses 
jokes, epigrams and photographs. 

COLLIER'S WEEKLY, 416 WEST 13TH ST., 
NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. Finley P. Dunne, 
Editor. Uses strong, original stories, 2,000 to 5,000 
words, stories of love, humor, action, business, in- 
trigue, etc., of general interest to the American man. 
Articles with proper photographs should pertain to 
world topics and events of the day. 

COSMOPOLITAN, 119 WEST 40TH ST., 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Ray Long, Editor. Cos- 
mopolitan has established the practice of purchasing 
only the best material from the most popular writers. 
Yet they are not prejudiced against the new writer, 
for yearly they bring out new names and erect fame 
and fortune for the practically unknown. They work 
on the theory, however, that the best goes with the 
best, so if you have anything unusually good and Cos- 
mopolitan in type do not be afraid to submit it. 
Stories may be love, adventure, sex, society or other 
type calculated to yield engrossing, thrilling entertain- 



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ment to readers who wish to be jarred out of the 
unusual into the bizarre, the ideally romantic, etc. 
Fiction must, above all else, reflect the conflict of emo- 
tions in a truly dramatic fashion. Articles usually 
are written by arrangement. Ray Long, previously 
editor of Red Book, states that if he can get better fic- 
tion for Cosmopolitan from the new writer than from 
the famous writers, then by all means he will buy from 
the unknowns. 

CURRENT HISTORY, TIMES BLDG., NEW 
YORK CITY. Monthly. George W. Ochs, Editor. 
This publication aims to be more or less of a source- 
book of happenings, events, movements and conditions 
relating to the diversified affairs of the entire world 
from the primary records and sources by which his- 
torical events are made known authoritatively. 

DETECTIVE STORY MAGAZINE, 70-89 SEV- 
ENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. 
F. E. Blackwell, Editor. A Street and Smith publica- 
tion. See Street and Smith for general requirements. 
Editor states : "Detective Story Magazine is a maga- 
zine of fiction. It publishes short stories and novel- 
ettes and serials, and is in the market for all these 
forms of literary expression." Uses stirring narra- 
tives dealing with the detective art, graphic tales of the 
unraveling of baffling crimes, stories of mystery, 
teeming with resistless fascination, etc. 

ELECTRICAL EXPERIMENTER, 233 FUL- 
TON ST., NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. H. 
Gernsback, Editor. Use articles from 1,200 to 1,500 
words, with proper photographs, plans and designs, 
dealing with the scientific, and especially with electri- 
cal and wireless topics of timely interest. In the mar- 
ket for items describing tersely, clearly and satisfac- 
torily how things of interest to the readers of the 
magazine may be made. 



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EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, SPRING AND 
MACDOUGAL STS., NEW YORK CITY. 
Monthly. S. V. Roderick, Editor. Uses short stories 
up to 5,000 words in length given over to love and ad- 
venture themes, though the editors insist that the 
stories, in treatment or theme, be ostensibly new and 
away from the trodden path of stories. In need, too, 
of articles relating to people and events. Articles 
should bring out the heart appeal, the human interest, 
and should be accompanied by photographs. 

EVERYDAY LIFE, HUNTER BLDG., CHI- 
CAGO., 111. Monthly. A. E. Sevett, Editor. Uses 
fresh, engaging love stories of 2,000 to 4,000 words 
about American life and people, in a plain or mysteri- 
ous setting. 

FORBES MAGAZINE, 120 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK CITY. Twice monthly. B. C. Forbes, 
Editor. Uses articles relating to up-to-date topics or 
to people of the financial or business world. Lengths, 
1,000 to 3,000 words. Uses a few short stories up to 
2,000 words. 

THE FORUM, 118 EAST 28TH ST., NEW 
YORK CITY. Monthly. Edwin Wildman, Presi- 
dent. Mr. Wildman states: "We are interested in 
articles by more or less well known authorities on 
questions which are of current controversial interest, 
particularly in the field of speculative thought; de- 
scriptive articles on experimental methods dealing 
with social problems; analytical personality sketches 
about men and women whose achievements are based 
upon a development of a theme in a better relation in 
the industrial and economic and political arena of ac- 
tivities; poetry whose theme relates the conflict of 
emotions rather than the phenomena of nature." 

GOOD STORIES, AUGUSTA, MAINE. Month- 
ly. This publication, which falls in the mail-order 



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type, circulates largely in the rural districts and uses 
a few short stories sentimentally romantic or melo- 
dramatically adventurous. Much of material is sec- 
ond-serial rights of "best sellers." 

GREEN BOOK, NORTH AMERICAN BLDG., 
CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Karl Edwin Harriman, 
Editor. Mr. Harriman states : "For our Green Book 
magazine we are publishing articles concerned with the 
individual and general interests and achievements of 
women outside the home, together with an equal 
amount of romantic fiction." 

GRIT, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Weekly. Fred- 
erick E. Manson, Editor. Uses stories of 1,500 to 
3,000 words; serials of 80,000 to 120,000 words. Fic- 
tion material may be of any type but must be enter- 
taining to the ordinary reader. Articles of various 
lengths are wanted, with sufficient photographs to 
carry out adequately the main force and meaning of 
the article; may deal with any topics of general and 
timely interest, particularly those that give the read- 
ers new things to think about in the world of human 
progress and that bring out points of interest not here- 
tofore touched upon. Photographs to accompany ar- 
ticles are proportioned in number to the length of ar- 
ticle to which they pertain. 

HARPER'S MAGAZINE, FRANKLIN SQUARE, 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. The Editors report: 
"The needs of Harper's Magazine are for material in- 
teresting in substance, treated with distinction. Arti- 
cles on travel, on recent scientific discoveries, on the 
economic problems of reconstruction, memoirs and es- 
says are always desired. In fiction the Magazine is in 
especial need of stories in lighter vein written with 
brilliancy and humor." 

HEARST'S MAGAZINE, 119 WEST 40TH ST., 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Sewell Haggard, 



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Editor. Uses love, business, adventure, sex and so- 
ciety stories of 3,500 to 7,000 words and all types of 
serials up to 100,000. All types of stories are wel- 
come, providing they do not offend good taste and are 
superlatively good. Conducts a department on recent 
scientific achievements, material for which is written 
by arrangement. Uses some articles of general in- 
terest. 

HEARTH AND HOME, AUGUSTA, MAINE. 
Monthly. Requirements largely identical with those 
of Good Stories. 

HOLLAND'S MAGAZINE, DALLAS, TEXAS. 
Monthly. W. B. Whitman, Editor. Uses all types of 
fiction material, stories of 2,500 to 5,000 words and 
serials up to 50,000 words. Fiction must be clean and 
wholesome and the writer should avoid the lurid and 
risque. Is always in the market for descriptive arti- 
cles of timely interest, suitably photographed, and 
preferably of local appeal. Conducts a Children's De- 
partment and an Old Folks' Department. Can use 
jokes, sketches, paragraphs, suggestions for the 
woman on household, and other topics. 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW, ATASCADERO, 
CALIF. Monthly. E. G. Lewis, Editor. A review 
of current events and people through the medium of 
photographs. Photographs should be interesting and 
tell in themselves as much of a story as possible. 

ILLUSTRATED WORLD, DREXEL AVENUE 
AND 58TH ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Wil- 
liam T. Walsh, Editor. Uses articles on recent scien- 
tific discoveries, world movements, etc., of 500 to 
2,000 words; photographs to illustrate articles are de- 
sired. Also desires brief descriptions, together with 
designs, of odd, queer and bizarre inventions or dis- 
coveries that appeal to a person's love of the unusual. 



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THE INDEPENDENT, 119 WEST FORTIETH 
STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. Hannah 
White, Managing Editor. States: "We are on the 
lookout for timely, humanly interesting news-arti- 
cles of from one to three thousand words in length. 
We pay on acceptance." 

LESLIE'S WEEKLY, 225 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. John A. Sleicher, 
Editor. Uses timely news articles on general topics 
but especially applicable to finance, business, politics, 
etc. Also in the market for photographs of prominent 
people, in revealing and significant postures. 

LIFE, 17 WEST 3 1 ST STREET, NEW YORK 
CITY. Weekly. Thomas L. Masson, Editor. States : 
"We want short dialogues, short verse and short prose 
— nothing over 500 words. We pay every Friday and 
our rates vary from two to ten cents per word." 

THE LITERARY DIGEST, 354 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. William 
S. Woods, Editor. Purchases no material. Magazine 
is made up from most significant and timely and inter- 
esting sections of newspapers and periodicals all over 
the world. A concentration of what is said in print 
concerning every phase of life that is engaging atten- 
tion of people. 

THE LITTLE REVIEW, 24 WEST 16TH 
STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Margaret 
Anderson, Editor. Uses articles and short stories of 
original tone and having a highly artistic finish, stories 
that delve deeply into human nature but that do not 
blast their way down. Material should come within 
1,500 words. Poetry of a slightly radical tinge is in 
demand. 

THE LITTLE STORY MAGAZINE, 714 
DREXEL BLDG., PHILA., PA. Monthly. William 



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H. Kofoed, Editor. Wants stories of 600 to 1,800 
words in which any theme will do providing it is dwelt 
with in such a fashion as to render a certain effect and 
then be done. Material should have obvious balance 
and length should be measured by what MUST be 
written to properly illumine the theme. 

LIVE STORIES, 35 WEST 39TH ST., NEW 
YORK CITY. Monthly. Robert Thomas Hardy, Edi- 
tor. Lays special stress on stories of a decided sex interest, 
Plots must have strong and new situations, action must 
proceed expeditiously to suspense-arousing crises and 
dynamic climax. Short stories up to 5,000; serials 
25,000; novelettes up to 28,000. Wants epigrams, 
skits, humorous sketches and verses, love lyrics, etc. 

McCLURE'S MAGAZINE, 76 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Herbert Kauffman, 
Editor. In need of striking, stirring, human stories, 
the plots of which seem to grow naturally from the 
force of character and circumstance; wishes to avoid 
in its fiction the trite and the hackneyed. The revealing 
of character through conversation seems to be a fav- 
orite mode with this magazine's fiction. Short stories, 
3,000 to 10,000 words. Uses some photographs of 
news interest. 

MACLEAN'S MAGAZINE, TORONTO, ONT., 
CAN. Monthly. T. B. Costain, Editor. In the mar- 
ket for stories, serials, novelettes and articles of all 
lengths. Acceptance contingent purely upon merit. 
Fiction must be of such strength as to lead the reader 
effectively into the story illusion, and make him re- 
member the story not as a thing of words but rather as 
a breathing agency that conveys truths of life. Some 
narrative verse used. 

METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, 432 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Carl 
Hovey, Managing Editor. Mr. Hovey states: "The 



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Metropolitan Magazine buys mainly short stories. 
Most of our articles are arranged for in advance with 
our own staff writers so that we are not actively in the 
field for articles. Memoirs of any sort, however, or 
personal recollections of great and important events 
are always of interest to us. But the main staple which 
we buy is short stories. We like them to be dramatic 
and convincing. Particularly we like them short. The 
story from two to five thousand words has a greater 
chance of acceptance than a story of from five to ten 
thousand words." 

FRANK A. MUNSEY COMPANY, 280 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK CITY. This publishing concern 
gets out Munsey's Magazine, The All-Story Weekly 
and Argosy. Its general requirements for these three 
publications are as follows : "We particularly want 
short stories from 1 ,000 to 6,000 words in length. We 
are also glad to read stories containing from 20,000 to 
120,000 words and suitable for publication as nov- 
elettes, as complete novels, or as serials. In stories, 
long or short, the qualities specially desired are strength 
of plot, simplicity of construction, clearness of style, 
and quickness of action. We do not care for char- 
acter studies, and cannot use dialect stories. Poems 
of more than thirty-two lines can very seldom be used." 

MUNSEY'S MAGAZINE, 280 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. R. H. Titherington, 
Editor. See Frank A. Munsey Company, as above. 
Uses special articles of timely news interest in the 
world of art, science, politics, finance, world move- 
ments, personalities, etc. Articles should be profuse- 
ly and well illustrated by clear, interesting photographs. 
Uses sparkling, lively vers-de-societe. Conducts an 
Odd Measure department open to all contributors who 
can produce odds-and-ends article material up to 800 
words, 



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MYSTERY MAGAZINE, 168 WEST 23D 
STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Semi-monthly. Lu 
Senarens, Editor. As the name of this publication im- 
plies, mystery, intrigue and detective stories having pro- 
found and perplex situations and predicaments are in 
demand. Short stories, 2,000 to 5,000 words, nov- 
elettes, 25,000 to 35,000. 

THE NATION, 20 VESEY STREET, NEW 
YORK CITY. Weekly. Harold De Wolf Fuller, 
Editor. Uses short, telling, to-the-point articles and 
essays on modern topics, especially with regard to the 
literary and political world. Insists upon beauty of 
style in material submitted. 

NATIONAL MAGAZINE, CHAPPLE PUB- 
LISHING COMPANY, BOSTON, MASS. Month- 
ly. Joe Mitchell Chappie, Editor. States: "We use 
mostly sketches about well known or interesting peo- 
ple.' , Not at present accepting any poetry, and, in its 
present form, not using fiction. 

THE NAUTILUS MAGAZINE, HOLYOKE, 
MASS. Monthly. Mrs. Elizabeth Towne, Editor. 
A magazine of New Thought. Uses articles, stories, 
experiences and poems that reveal how New Thought 
has been largely instrumental in helping people ac- 
complish certain ends, attain a higher mentality, secure 
a tighter grasp upon their own destinies, etc. 

NEW REPUBLIC, 421 WEST 21 ST STREET, 
NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. Philip Littell, Asso- 
ciate Editor. Uses articles intended to form public 
opinion regarding current events in politics, finance, 
international diplomacy, etc. Material must be author- 
itative, must disclose first-hand knowledge of subject 
treated and must possess good style. Articles should 
not exceed 1,500 words. 

THE NEW SUCCESS, ST. JAMES BLDG., 
NEW YORK CITY. Orison Swett Marden, Editor. 



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A source-book of inspiration suggestions for the right 
mental attitude toward tackling the big jobs of life. 
Uses experiences and stories of achievement in the face 
of odds, and attempts to bring home the secret of ac- 
complishment to its readers by showing, through its 
articles, how others have done it and are doing it, 

NORTH AMERICAN REVIEW, 171 MADISON 
AVE., NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. George Har- 
vey, Editor. Uses articles, up to 2,500 words, pertain- 
ing to world affairs, economics, literature, art, science, 
etc. Material must be distinctive and well handled. 

OUTLOOK, 381 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK CITY. Weekly. Lyman Abbott, Editor. 
Prints three small numbers and one large number 
monthly. For the former, uses comments on, and re- 
views of, current events, in the field of religion, science, 
politics, etc. The large number uses several short 
stories revealing masterfully interesting tendencies and 
reactions of human nature. Also sketches and biog- 
raphies of interesting personalities, nature articles, 
etc. Material should not exceed 3,000 words. 

PARISIENNE, 25 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW 
YORK CITY. Monthly. Wyndham Martyn, Edi- 
tor. Need is for short stories mirroring the frothier, 
more carefree side of life, both in American and the 
large cities and watering places of the Continent. 
Breezy melodrama and love stories are wanted. Stor- 
ies of mystery with a French setting are also wanted, 
but not stories involving the horrible or the indecent. 
The novelettes of the Parisienne run from 15,000 to 
17,000 words. Bright verse, jokes, epigrams and short 
prose pieces are always desired. 

PASSING SHOW, 1320 NEW YORK AVENUE, 
N. W., WASHINGTON, D. C. Twice monthly. 
Thomas R. Dawley, Jr., Editor. As the name of this 
periodical implies, it chooses to make pungent observa- 



24 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

tions on, and reviews of, interesting current events, 
etc., that pass by. Uses articles of news interest; also 
jokes, humorous verse, photographs, etc. 

PEOPLE'S FAVORITE MAGAZINE, 79 SEV- 
ENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. 
Lee D. Brown, Editor. In the market for heart-inter- 
est story material dealing with love, business or adven- 
ture, and for human-interest articles and sketches of 
personalities together with the formula whereby these 
personalities attained success and the big motives that 
actuated them in accomplishing certain ends. Such 
articles may apply to women as well as men, and 
articles explaining how women may better themselves 
in various ways are always welcome. 

THE PEOPLE'S POPULAR MONTHLY, DES 
MOINES, IOWA. Monthly. Elizabeth B. Canady, 
Managing Editor. "It is the plan of the People's Pop- 
ular Monthly to run only those stories which shall in- 
crease the joy of living in the small towns and rural 
communities of the Middle West. Stories may perhaps 
feature success which has come to those who live in 
such communities, or it may have purely entertainment 
value, as a wholesome love or adventure story. We use 
very little poetry, but welcome instructive articles of a 
practical nature, together with photographic material." 

PHYSICAL CULTURE, 19 WEST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Carl 
Easton Williams, Editor. Mr. Easton states: "We 
are in the market, for Physical Culture Magazine, for 
anything pertaining to health and body-building, but 
all contributions should be written in popular style with 
plenty of snap. The thing that we are particularly 
interested in procuring is the personal-experience story 
showing 'How I Did It,' 'How I Won Back Health,' 
and if possible, how splendid health fits one for busi- 
ness and the general affairs of life. Physical Culture 
is not devoted to the 'Strong Arm' idea but to per- 



STANDARD MAGAZINES 25 

sonal efficiency, the main idea being that better health 
is conducive to making a better human being, capable 
of performing a higher grade of work, and leading a 
happier life. We particularly desire photographs on 
any subjects, and personal-experience stories should in- 
clude photographs of outdoor life, methods of training 
and the like. We are conducting prize contests, for 
this year having two, one on 'What I Have Learned 
About Bringing Up Children,' and the other on 'W T hat 
Is the Ideal Diet ? In each case three prizes were 
awarded, first prize two hundred and fifty dollars, 
second prize one hundred and fifty dollars, third prize 
one hundred dollars." 

POPULAR MAGAZINE, 79-89 SEVENTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Twice monthly. 
Charles A. MacLean, Editor. Reports : "Popular 
uses adventure, mystery, business, and humorous 
stories of the highest life only. Must concern them- 
selves with contemporary life and be up-to-date in 
every respect." See Street and Smith for general re- 
quirements. 

POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE, 6 
NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. 
Monthly. J. L. Peabody, Editor. Wishes the follow- 
ing mentioned : "Covers new developments in the 
fields of science, mechanics, industry, invention and 
discovery. Non-technical, profusely illustrated. Can 
use anything in the nature of constructive develop- 
ment anywhere providing it be new, practical, and in- 
teresting to a large number of people. Any size 
photographs acceptable, providing they be sharp and 
clear. Passes upon material promptly and pays upon 
acceptance." 

POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, 225 WEST 
THIRTY-NINTH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. 
Monthly. Loren Palmer, Managing Editor. Re- 
ports: "Popular Science Monthly is always glad to 



26 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

consider photographically illustrated articles dealing 
with new inventions, scientific discoveries, the applica- 
tion of familiar devices to new uses and unusual en- 
gineering feats. Whenever possible, the accompany- 
ing photographs should show a human being working 
with the devices described or at least standing near it 
to give a basis for size comparison. Our rates are 
three dollars each for photographs and one cent a 
word for acceptable text." 

THE RED BOOK MAGAZINE, NORTH 
AMERICAN BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
Karl Edwin Harriman, Editor. Reports: "We seek 
the best work of the best and most popular American 
writers of fiction, short and long." 

RED CROSS MAGAZINE, GARDEN CITY, 
L. I., NEW YORK. Monthly. Reginald T. Towns- 
end, Editor. Uses articles and stories with the Red 
Cross atmosphere, of interest to people who desire the 
alleviation of suffering and distress. Articles and 
stories may or may not deal with war subjects, but 
should feature Red Cross activities more or less. Uses 
photographs illustrating Red Cross methods, with or 
without the war elements. 

REVIEW OF REVIEWS, 30 IRVING PLACE, 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Albert Shaw, Edi- 
tor. Contains comments regarding men and affairs, 
particularly recent developments in the world at large 
in any of its phases, but especially with regard to poli- 
tics, international diplomacy, economics, etc. Uses ar- 
ticles of news interest and prefers them photographi- 
cally illustrated. Also articles of general and instruc- 
tive interest on science, art, education, personalities, 
discoveries, etc. Own staff writes condensations of 
articles and editorials, prepares reviews, excerpts, etc. 

ROMANCE, SPRING AND MACDOUGAL 
STREETS, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Arthur 
S. Hoffman, Editor. Reports: "Romance is a maga- 



STANDARD MAGAZINES 27 

zine for both men and women. It has no puritanical 
standards, but it will be kept relentlessly clean. Love 
is a natural theme, but there will be no salacious sex 
appeal. Stories of action are wanted and, on the 
whole, stories of the open have preference over in- 
door tales." Keeps two serials running most of the 
time, using them up at the speed of 20,000 an install- 
ment. Publishes novelettes up to 60,000 words. 

SATURDAY EVENING POST, INDEPEND- 
ENCE SQUARE, PHILA., PA. Weekly. George 
H. Lorimer. Uses short stories from 5,000 to 10,000 
words; serials, from 60,000 to 100,000; novelettes up 
to 60,000 words. Articles, ranging from 5,000 to 
7,000 words in length, must be photographically illus- 
trated, unless they are humorous sketches, and may 
deal with any subject of wide and general interest: 
International policy, finance, travel, nature, etc. Is 
especially interested in articles that bring the reader in 
touch with our own beautiful America, that point out 
ways whereby America can be made more sound and 
powerful, articles on forest conservation, travel ex- 
periences and the like. Article material must be writ- 
ten by people who have been on the ground and who 
are in a position indubitably to know whereof they 
write. Fiction of the happy, optimistic, living type is 
wanted, that -brings out new phases of life, new sen- 
sations, emotions, predicaments, reactions, etc. The 
sensational or thrilling is not necessary. Be the stories 
business, adventure or other type, the woman interest 
is always desirable. Stories need not be a flashlight of 
some particular side of human nature, but may be 
rather the gradual forward movement of forceful, in- 
teresting people in revealing postures, situations, con- 
versations, attitudes, etc. 

SATURDAY BLADE, 500 NORTH DEAR- 
BORN ST., CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Merlin M. 
Taylor, Editor. Especially want very unusual and 



28 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

striking photographs of a very bizarre and quaint na- 
ture, with suitable captions of approximately one hun- 
dred words. Uses news stories. 

SATURDAY NIGHT, RICHMOND AND SHEP- 
PARD STREETS, TORONTO, ONT., CAN. 
Weekly. Frederick Paul, Editor. Uses articles and 
stories of approximately 2,000 words of strong Cana- 
dian interest. Articles of general Canadian news in- 
terest, especially anecdotes of notable Canadians, ren- 
dered notable by their accomplishments, positions, ser- 
vice, etc. Such articles seem to run to Canadians in 
the public gaze. 

SAUCY STORIES, 25 WEST 45TH STREET- 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. F. M. Osborne, 
Editor. Wants fiction with very rapid action and 
•novel plots of up-to-date life. It prefers an American 
scene. Charm, romance, mystery, adventure, are es- 
sential. Swift-moving novelettes are always welcome. 
Short humorous poems, amusing and dramatic fillers, 
and clever epigrams, are always needed. 

THE SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN, 233 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. Has for its 
aim the popularization and simplification of scientific 
knowledge along all lines. Articles, photographically 
illustrated, pertaining to new discoveries of all types in 
all fields of scientific endeavor are always welcome. 
The novice is welcomed providing his material is prac- 
tical, valuable, timely and new. 

SCRIBNER'S MAGAZINE, FIFTH AVENUE 
AT 48TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Month- 
ly. Robert Ridges, Editor. One of the high class lit- 
erary publications insisting on an exceptionally ele- 
vated standard for all accepted material. Uses articles 
by the highest authorities that appeal to the critical and 
the cultured — articles pertaining to travel expeditions, 
by the actual participants preferably, to diplomatic ex- 



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periences, to interesting sections of the United States 
or the outside world, to science, literature and the like. 
Article material should not be didactic or academic. 
Uses finely done short stories of characterization. 

SHORT STORIES, GARDEN CITY, L. I., 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Harry E. Maule, Editor. 
States : "We want adventure stories 4,000 to 6,500 
words in length, with fresh, strong plots; and we also 
want novelettes, novels, and serials in which there is 
plenty of action." 

THE SMART SET, 25 WEST 45TH STREET, 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. George Jean Na- 
than and H. L. Mencken, Editors. Wants novelettes 
of from 16,000 to 25,000 words, briskly written and 
embodying new ideas. "We like a good tale of mys- 
tery now and then, and are hospitable to novelties of 
all sorts. Good short stories of any length, so long as 
they do not fall into the category of the hackneyed and 
the offensive. Lyric verse, but not vers libre. Essays 
that are unhackneyed in style and manner. In the 
main, they should be satirical. Original epigrams. 
Short pieces in prose. Here we welcome oddities of 
all sorts. They may be serious or humorous. One- 
act plays, grave or gay. Short dialogues, one-page 
essays, experiments in phrasing, prose poems — in 
brief anything that is novel." 

SMITH'S MAGAZINE, SEVENTH AVENUE 
AND FIFTEENTH STREET, NEW YORK 
CITY. Monthly. See Street and Smith for general 
requirements. Uses live, up-to-date stories of inter- 
est to women. 

SNAPPY STORIES, 35 WEST 39TH STREET. 
NEW YORK CITY. Twice Monthly. Robert T. 
Hardy, Editor. Wants breezy, rapid-fire, striking 
stories, up to 5,000 words, with a decided sex interest. 
Novelettes of from 15,000 to 20,000 words. Three- 



30 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

act plays and two-part stories. Sketches, epigrams, 
humorous verse and poetry — though for purposes of 
contrast the verse may strike a sombre tone— prose 
fillers and such. 

STREET AND SMITH CORPORATION, 79-89 
SEVENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Pub- 
lishes Ainslee's, Smith's, People's Favorite Magazine, 
Picture-Play, Western Story, Top-Notch, Popular 
and Detective Story. General requirements are : "No 
story is too long — none too short. Plots should be 
strong and the action quick. Simplicity of construc- 
tion and clearness of style are also important. Dialect 
stories, character studies, and stories with tragic end- 
ings are not desired. Stories with an American set- 
ting are preferable." 

SUNSET MAGAZINE, THE PACIFIC 
MONTHLY, SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. Monthly. 
Charles K. Field, Editor. Of interest to the westerner 
of the Pacific Coast region. Article material should re- 
flect the many-sided life of the West of today, not of 
yesterday. Articles should be helpful, humanly inter- 
esting and purposeful. Especially desires personality 
sketches, of people who have acclimated themselves to 
western conditions in an effective and interesting 
fashion, people who have done things for the West, 
made themselves in the West, etc. Conducts a "Homes 
in the West" department in which are featured illus- 
trated articles regarding home-making and living con- 
ditions peculiar to the western regions; these articles 
should be brief, practical, revealing, encouraging, in- 
structive. Uses stories in which the western atmos- 
phere and environment preferably is stressed. 

SYSTEM, MADISON STREET AND WA- 
BASH AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. A. 
W. Shaw, Editor. A magazine of business. Not a 
likely market for the amateur or the professional 
writer who lacks business experience, since System 



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wants nothing that does not come from first-hand, ac- 
tual and complete, tested and scientific experience. 
Articles dealing with the theory of business not 
wanted ; material is practical and stresses the methods 
used by big business and successful business men in 
overcoming certain obstacles, in finding new trade 
channels, in developing bigger and better markets, etc. 
etc. 

10-STORY BOOK, MONTROSE AND CLAR- 
ENDON BLVD., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
Harry S. Keeler, Editor. Features the snappy, 
breezy, lurid sex stories of the thrilling, light and 
fluffy types. Lengths, 1,500 to 5,000 words. 

• THE THRILL BOOK, 70 SEVENTH AVE., 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Ronald Oliphant, 
Editor. Strives to live up to the name it has set for 
itself. Wants no reader to put down a copy of the 
magazine with the disappointed feeling that "The 
Thrill Book" is a misnomer. Features short stories 
up to 3,500 words in length; novelettes of 25,000 to 
35,000 words; serials of 40,000 to 50,000 words. Edi- 
tors demand that story material present a series of un- 
paralleled thrills and gripping sensations. This does 
not mean that the material should hue to the line of 
the type melodramas; while the bizarre, the very un- 
usual, is to be desired, it is essential that the unheard- 
of and the unthought-of be brought out in a tolerably 
agreeable and convincing fashion. Wants its material 
to embody conflict of emotion of the most unusual, 
hence welcomes even the fantastical. 

TOP-NOTCH MAGAZINE, 79-89 SEVENTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Twice monthly. 
Henry W. Thomas, Editor. See Street and Smith 
for general requirements. Reports: "Top-Notch is 
well disposed toward any kind of a good story. 
Enough that it be clean, with a definite plot, and must 
be a good piece of work all round. We like sport 
stories, but they, too, must have plot and be well con- 



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structed. We have no rules about length. A story of 
any length can be taken care of." 

THE TOUCHSTONE MAGAZINE, 118 WEST 
30TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. 
Mary Fanton, Editor. This publication aims to in- 
form its readers of the latest and best trends, happen- 
ings and accomplishments with regard to the higher, 
better and finer things of life, the mental stimulants 
and the artistically beautiful, especially with regard 
to poetry, painting, sculpture, architecture, etc. It 
aims also' to bring beauty, taste, symmetry, proportion, 
restful qualities, etc., to the home and to make the 
home a veritable poem in itself, the home, of course, 
viewed from the material standpoint and externally as 
well as internally. In the market for realistic, strik- 
ing fiction mirroring life of today, keenly analytical 
and characterizing. 

TOWN TOPICS, 2 WEST 45TH STREET, 
NEW YORK CITY. Weekly. William D'Alton 
Mann, Editor. Wants stories with a society atmos- 
phere and environment. Jokes, verse of a light na- 
ture, etc. 

TRAVEL, 31 EAST 17TH STREET, NEW 
YORK CITY. Monthly. Katherine N. Birdsall, 
Editor. In the market for unusual and entertaining 
articles regarding travel experiences in divers places 
and by various methods; articles may deal with any 
places, with explorations, etc., but they must express 
and feature the unusual, the engrossing, the queer, the 
vivid sides of travel life and experiences. Articles 
should be accompanied by sharp and clear photographs 
illustrating the text. 

VANITY FAIR, 449 FOURTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Frank Crownin- 
shield, Editor. States: "We use no fiction and al- 
most no verse. Our chief demand is for satires about 
the length of a page of Vanity Fair. We cannot use 



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anything much longer than this. We concern our- 
selves chiefly with the stage, with literature and the 
other arts, and have regular departments for bridge, 
motoring and golf, and we insist that everything we 
print must come up to a certain standard of good taste 
or even of smartness." 

WESTERN STORY MAGAZINE, 79-89 SEV- 
ENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK CITY. Twice a 
month. F. E. Blackwell, Editor. See Street and 
Smith for general requirements. "Prints nothing but 
stories of Western adventure, big, buoyant, abound- 
ing in life, action, and the humorous sparkles that 
light up the rough places. This magazine carries a 
strong appeal to all persons, old and young, men and 
women, boys and girls, who like narratives dealing 
with life in the open." 

THE WORLD OUTLOOK, 150 FIFTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Willard 
Price, Editor. Uses all classes of material relating to 
the life and events of all countries — anything that will 
interest the person of broad outlook and world sympa- 
thies. Material may be in any form, poetry, story, 
sketch, article, etc. Gives preference to those articles 
dealing with the darker, least known and semi-civil- 
ized sections of the world. 

WORLD'S WORK, GARDEN CITY, L. I., NEW 
YORK. Monthly. A. W. Page, Editor. States: 
"We use only articles of economic and political cur-, 
rent events. We use no poetry at all." 

YOUNG'S MAGAZINE, 112 EAST 19TH 
STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Monthly. Court- 
land Young, Editor. Uses sex stories featuring high 
emotional intensity with a tendency towards the risque 
and the fluffy. Material should be modern in theme 
and treatment and may have happy or unhappy end- 
ings. Uses skits, sketches, dialogues, verse, etc., 
humorous or otherwise. 



CHAPTER II. 
WOMEN'S AND HOUSEHOLD PERIODICALS. 

AMERICAN SEARCHLIGHT, 501 CAXTON 
BLDG., CLEVELAND, OHIO. Quarterly. Albert 
Sidney Gregg, Editor. Uses articles up to one thous- 
and words giving methods and means whereby the 
young of our country may be guarded against the vari- 
ous evil conditions that exist, especially in regard to 
intemperance and the like. Wants fact stories concern- 
ing persons who abolished illegal and evil practices in 
various localities, and telling how they brought the 
searchlight of public opinion to bear upon them. Also 
in the market for material showing how the youth's 
enthusiasm and his irrepressible spirits, also his natural 
tendencies toward sentiment, romance and love, may 
be toned down to comfortable and safe limits. 

BEACON LIGHT, 34 WEST FIRST AVENUE, 
COLUMBUS, O. Quarterly. Dr. F. H. Darby, Edi- 
tor. The mouthpiece of The Children's Home Society 
of Ohio. Aims to find good homes among honest and 
upright citizens for orphans and other dependent chil- 
dren. A market for short stories, articles and some 
verse. 

CANADIAN HOME JOURNAL, 71 RICH- 
MOND STREET, WEST TORONTO, ONTARIO, 
CANADA. Monthly. W. G. Rork, Editor. Special 
need of articles up to possibly 1,500 words, on topics 
of appeal to the women of Canada. Such topics may 
embrace church work, economics and scientific house- 
keeping, entertainments and the like. Uses short stor- 
ies with a Canadian atmosphere and environment. 

CHILD-WELFARE MAGAZINE, P. O. BOX 
4022, WEST PHILADELPHIA, PENN. Monthly. 



WOMEN'S AND HOUSEHOLD PERIODICALS 35 

Mrs. Frederic Schorr", Editor. In the market for any 
kind of material that will further the general welfare 
of the child. 

CLUB WOMAN'S MAGAZINE, LINCOLN INN 
COURT, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Monthly. Mrs. 
M. P. Corwin, Editor. Uses short stories of about 
2,000 words relating to activities of club women. Also 
some articles relating to the conduct and activities of 
women's clubs. 

COMFORT, AUGUSTA, ME. A. M. Goddard, 
Editor. This periodical has a large rural circulation. 
In the market for lively, sparkling, romantic or adven- 
turous stories with meaning and a purposeful theme; 
prefers that the settings of these stories be urban. 
Uses some 3-part stories up to 8,500 words, and a few 
little compact stories of interest to children. 

DELINEATOR, SPRING AND MACDOUGAL 
STREETS, NEW YORK. Monthly. Mrs. Honore 
Willsie, Editor. Features material of general interest 
to women everywhere, but lays special stress upon 
articles connected with home life and the woman in the 
home, together with her relation to its various prob- 
lems. This publication demands only that articles be 
workable and practical and of decided value to the 
reader. Conducts pages and items with regard to how 
other women are economizing in various branches of 
home work. Uses some verse. As for fiction, is in 
the market for love or adventure stories from 500 to 
4,000 words; the chief attention of the reader usually 
to be centered on some likable, wholesome, spirited 
young girl or woman who takes the part of the heroine. 

THE DESIGNER, 12 VANDAM STREET, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. James E. Tower, Editor. 
Uses a large variety of articles relating to women's in- 
terest in and out of the home; also material pertaining 
to dress, beauty hints, and the like. Uses photographs 



36 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

and articles both short and long, pertaining to cooking, 
beautification of the home, household hints, and the 
like. Some original stories with a finely woven plot 
and a love or adventure content are desired. Stories 
should be set in pleasant surroundings, should feature 
interesting people, properly characterized, in signifi- 
cant, important and entertaining situations whose out- 
come leave a firm impression upon the reader's mind. 
Fiction material should be ethical though not ostensibly 
so. 

EVERYWOMAN'S WORLD, 62 TEMPER- 
ANCE STREET, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CAN- 
ADA. Monthly. Mary M. Murphy, Editor. In the 
market for short stories of general interest and inspira- 
tion to the woman; also articles pertaining to woman 
and woman's problems. Short stories of 3,000 words 
or less, serials of approximately eight installments, 
25,000 words each. 

THE FARMER'S WIFE, ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Monthly. Leonarda Goss, Editor. In the market for 
bright, lively, human-interest stories that will appeal to 
the woman of the farm and will raise her, in a sense, 
to the ideal and absorbing and charming world of love 
and adventure ; uses some short verse. Story material 
should fall within a 6,000 word limit. 

FASHIONABLE DRESS, 170 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. M. Buschbaum, Editor. 
In the market for stories and articles of interest to 
women everywhere and of all classes. Good photo- 
graphs are welcome. Stories have a 5,000 word limit 
and articles range between 1,200 and 2,000 words. 

FORECAST, 6 EAST 39th STREET, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. A. M. Goudiss, Editor. Uses 
articles and photographs relating to experiences and to 
facts relating to foods, though this does not apply to 
recipes. 



WOMEN'S AND HOUSEHOLD PERIODICALS 37 

GOOD HOUSEKEEPING, 119 WEST 40th 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. W. F. Bigelow, 
Editor. Reports that so far as fiction is concerned it 
is all filled up for the next eight months. Is occasional- 
ly in the market for articles regarding the growth of 
the home beautiful, artistic, individual and distinctive. 
In the market for high-class verse and lyrical poems. 
Conducts various departments with regard to house- 
hold activities and in the market for paragraphs for 
these departments. 

^ HARPER'S BAZAR, 119 WEST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. W. Martin 
Johnson, Editor. In the market for poetry, stories, 
serials, novelettes, and articles that reveal distinction 
and good taste, and that are written with the aim of 
appealing to knowing, understanding, discriminatory 
persons who appreciate the best. All material should 
follow out the magazine policy of reproducing the 
more happy and cheerfully absorbing phases of life 
and human nature. 

HOME FRIEND MAGAZINE, KANSAS CITY, 
MO. Monthly. John Meagher, Editor. Conducts a 
department, "The Humorous Side," for which it wel- 
comes paragraphs, humorous verse or prose pieces, 
jokes, etc. In the market for stories, serials and arti- 
cles of general interest to the woman of the house- 
hold; uses fashion articles. 

HOME LIFE, 141 WEST OHIO STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Josephine Conger, Edi- 
tor. Can use any good stories within a 1,500 or 3,000 
word limit, with a romantic, a thrilling or a domestic 
setting, stories that take the readers away from the 
scenes and conditions of their own life and on the 
other hand, stories that reproduce problems of human 
nature under those very conditions of ordinary living. 

HOUSEHOLD, TOPEKA, KANS. Monthly. 



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Alice E. Wells, Editor. Offers monthly three prizes 
for its household hints page to the persons submitting 
the best suggestions and hints regarding the lightening 
of household duties and articles regarding discoveries, 
methods, means, etc., in respect to domestic science. 

HOUSEHOLD GUEST, 550 NORTH LA 
SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
William G. Wilson, Editor. In the market for usual 
types of stories, serials, articles and such, of inter- 
est to the woman of the household. Conducts depart- 
ments relative to the child, cooking and apparel or 
dress. 

HOUSEWIVES' MAGAZINE, 405 LEXING- 
TON AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. Mrs. 
Julian Heath, Editor. This publication is taken up en- 
tirely with woman's activities in all phases of life. 
Interests itself especially in those women who have ac- 
complished unusual things and who have been self- 
made, for which productions there should be suitable 
photographs. In the market also for paragraphs and 
short articles of news interest regarding women and 
young girls all over the country. Can use articles, 
photographically illustrated, with reference to family 
purse, the beautification of the home, healthy menus, 
the care of children, needlecraft, dress-making, em- 
broidery and the like. 

LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, INDEPEND- 
ENCE SQUARE, PHILA., PA. Monthly. Ed- 
ward W. Bok, Editor. In the market for short stories 
of up-to-date American life; short-story material must 
fall within a 3,000 to 5,000 word limit. Stories may 
concern themselves with various themes, but prefer- 
ably with those of love, business, and such, in which 
the characters are made to seem living, breathing per- 
sons in whose welfare and interests we are intensely 
engrossed, who reveal themselves as charmingly hu- 
man and who react to conditions and situations in an 



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ideally, typical, though original and effective manner. 
In the market for jokes and anecdotes relating to not- 
able people for its "That Reminds Me" Department. 
Also in the market for photographs that tell a story 
of unusual scope and interest. 

LIGHT, LA CROSSE, WIS. Bi-monthly. B. S. 
Steadwell, Editor. Has for its mission the extirpation 
and abolishment of all types of exploited and commer- 
cialized vice. In the market for articles relating to re- 
forms along various social lines and particularly with 
regard to white slavery, intemperance, divorce, and the 
like. 

McCALL'S MAGAZINE, 236 WEST 37TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Lou Fields 
Davison, Assistant Editor. States: "Our standard 
of fiction is high and every story does not have to be a 
love story, but it must be well written, with a good 
plot, sincere and convincing. We want stories that 
will interest every age, the flapper, the young girl in 
her teens, the matron, and so on. All articles should 
be of general interest, written in a popular style. We 
are always interested in topics that will appeal espe- 
cially to women. 

MISSOURI WOMAN, 1627 WASHINGTON 
AVENUE, ST. LOUIS, MO. Monthly. Mary 
Semple Scott, Editor. In the market for fiction of 
only two or three hundred words dealing with the 
various activities and problems of the woman and her 
constant desire to better and make happier her life and 
place. Also in the market for serials of feeling and 
heart appeal. 

MODERN PRISCILLA, BOSTON, MASS. 
Monthly. Christine Ferry, Managing Editor. This 
publication is given over almost entirely to the display 
of fashion of all types and for all ages; to receipts, 
crocheting, embroidering, and the like. In the market 



40 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

for photographs properly illustrating the best hints 
and suggestions referring to the above. It is now us- 
ing two or three short stories in each issue. The vari- 
ous departments devoted to household handicraft are 
handled by authorities, though original and helpful 
material regarding the various things in which a 
woman is interested and spends most of her time, at 
work or play, are always in demand. 

MOTHER'S MAGAZINE, 180 NORTH WA- 
BASH AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. ' Joseph- 
ine Conger, Editor. In the market for special ar- 
ticles of all types relating to the problems, activities 
and necessities of the mother, her child and her home. 
Also in the market for short stories up to 4,000 words 
of a bright, optimistic trend, of interest to mothers. 

NEEDLECRAFT, AUGUSTA, ME. Monthly. 
Margaret B. Manning, Editor. Uses articles of all 
types relating to the latest in needlecraft, practically 
all of these departments and pages being conducted by 
experts. 

NEW ENGLAND HOMESTEAD, SPRING- 
FIELD, MASS. Miss A. O. Goessling, Editor. In 
the market for stories, serials, photographs, poetry, 
and the like. Stories and articles should be of interest 
to rural populations, who wish to get a peek at the 
thrills and the sensations that happen in out-of-the-way 
localities and to people under unusual complications. 
Article material should attempt to solve ordinary 
household problems in an effective manner. Uses se- 
rials up to 80,000 words. 

NEW IDEAS, 612 CHESTNUT STREET, 
PHILA., PA. Monthly. Theodore W. Messick, Edi- 
tor. In the market for short stories and articles of 
interest to the farmer and his household. 

THE PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL, 76 LA- 
FAYETTE STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. 



WOMEN'S AND HOUSEHOLD PERIODICALS 41 

Moody Bliss Gates, Editor. In the market for dis- 
tinctive and wholesome short fiction up to 5,000 words ; 
serials of from 30,000 to 45,000 words and novelettes 
up to 10,000 words; also articles of general appeal and 
content. Uses some lyrical verse and seasonal poetry. 

PICTORIAL REVIEW, 200-226 WEST 39th 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Jane Lee, Edi- 
tor. (Literary.) Miss Lee reports: "The needs of 
this magazine are generally for good fiction. Of 
course, our needs change from time to time. At pres- 
ent we need very short stories. That means under 
5,000 words, but every month in the year we are in 
the market for the best short stories that the best 
authors in this country can write. Decision is rendered 
in twenty-four hours. Payment is made on acceptance. 
Once a year we buy a novelette which runs in one of 
our summer numbers. This novelette must be about 
25,000 words in length, must have a strong emotional 
appeal and a dramatic setting. We have no set policy 
regarding stories. We want any story that we con- 
sider an interesting story barring only those with 
salacious flavor. Most of our special articles are on 
order. As far as the back of the book goes, we are 
always in the market for live, up-to-date stuff that 
helps the progressive woman. We believe in talking 
up to and not preaching down to the woman of today. 
We buy very little verse and it must be of a high 
class." 

SOCIAL PROGRESS, 205 WEST MONROE 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Mary Alice 
Hoover, Editor. The aim of this publication is for 
Child Conservation and any articles or photographs or 
stories bearing out the theme will gladly be accepted. 
Material, be it article or fiction, should deal with the 
child at home, in training, and with its various activi- 
ties. Uses articles pertaining to scientific inventions, 
discoveries, nature and such, preferably photographi- 
cally illustrated. 



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SOUTHERN WOMAN'S MAGAZINE, 105 
HUDSON ST., NEW YORK. Russell Raymond 
Vorhees, Editor. Of special interest to women of the 
South. Stories or articles having this decided tone 
should be submitted to this publication. 

SPARE MOMENTS, ALLENTOWN, PA. 
Monthly. George W. Willis, Editor. Features thrill- 
ing, mysterious and adventure stories of approxi- 
mately 2,500 words. Some paragraphs, sketches, an- 
ecdotes and the like. 

TODAY'S HOUSEWIFE, 461 FOURTH AVE., 
NEW YORK. Delia Thompson Lutes, Editor. 
States : "Today's Housewife uses two or three short 
stories each month of about thirty-five hundred words 
in length. These stories must be of a wholesome type, 
must be full of action and interest and of the kind that 
a mother will feel perfectly safe in laying before her 
family of young people; love, interest, home life, child 
interest, married life and humor all have their part in 
our fiction. For serials we prefer the three or four- 
part length, and these may be either of adventure, 
mystery or home interest. There are short stories, 
verses and attractive features used on our Children's 
Page. Our cookery, fancy work and sewing articles 
are generally written by regular contributors but we 
are always glad to examine manuscripts on these sub- 
jests. Particularly do we invite fancy work, especially 
crochet articles from our readers. Timely articles on 
subjects of interest to the housewife and mother are 
always acceptable." 

VOGUE, 443 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 
Semi-monthly. Edna Woolman Chase, Editor. Ma- 
terial for this publication should bear largely upon the 
activities of women engrossed in social life and upon 
the conditions and circumstances and amusements that 
accompany the activities of the well-to-do. Especially 



WOMEN'S AND HOUSEHOLD PERIODICALS 43 

wants photographs of beautiful homes, exterior and 
interior, in which well-arranged, unusual gardening 
effects are rendered in sharp and clear photographs. 
Articles may concern themselves with the mannerisms, 
foibles and vanities of the social life, together with 
prominent society women themselves and their various 
activities in all lines of amusement, travel, work, etc. 
Also short verse of a lively, airy and humorous con- 
tent as well as witty paragraphs and satires on the 
vanities and fads of the society folk. 

WESTERN HOME MONTHLY, NEW STOVEL 

BLDG., WINNIPEG, MAN., CAN. Monthly. James 
T. Mitchell, Editor. Uses short stories and articles 
that would appeal largely to the members of western 
families. 

THE WESTERN MONITOR, BALCARRES, 
SASK., CANADA. Weekly. W. B. A. Brandt, Man- 
ager. In the market for several short stories that 
strike a responsive cord in the hearts of sympathetic 

readers. 

THE WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, 381 
FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. 
Miss Gertrude B. Lane, Editor. States: "The Wo- 
man's Home Companion uses fiction ranging from 
short stories to 1,000 or 2,000 words in length to se- 
rials of seven or eight installments ; material suiting the 
household and other departments; articles, photo- 
graphs, drawings, and cover designs. Translations of 
matter from foreign periodicals or books are never 
used. Short stories should not exceed 3,000 words in 
length. Fiction should be of the wholesome, inspiring 
and entertaining, even emotional, type, while article 
material may have as its aim the simplification and the 
popularization of knowledge regarding recent develop- 
ments in literature, art, music, and other things that 
make life more bright and absorbing. 



44 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

THE WOMAN'S MAGAZINE, 636 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK. Monthly. Marie M. Meloney, 
Editor. In the market for short fiction bearing on the 
woman in various predicaments and in various situa- 
tions of life, but with preference to love stories and 
stories of business in which women take the leading 
part; bright, sparkling, humorous stories with consid- 
erable conversation are also desired. Articles should 
be practical in every sense of the word and concern 
themselves with the main phases of woman's life at 
home; cooking, household work, social life at home, 
thrift, and the like. Also in the market for short ar- 
ticles, photographically illustrated, regarding women 
in interesting and unusual postures; also material re- 
garding welfare work in particular localities. 

WOMAN'S WORLD, 107 SOUTH CLINTON 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Hiram M. 
Green, Editor. Mr. Green proffers the following in- 
formation: "Woman's World uses clean fiction. 
Short stories may be from 1,000 to 12,000 words. 
While American stories are always preferred, stories 
with foreign settings are not barred, Woman's World 
uses verse, preferring short poems that have to do 
with nature or with love. Suggestions and ideas for 
departments and features are welcomed and are paid 
for, as is all material, upon acceptance." 



CHAPTER III. 
WHERE TO SELL PHOTOPLAYS. 

Notice. — In the following list we have omitted the 
names of some of the producing companies. We have 
done this only when they do not purchase manuscripts 
from outside writers. Our aim has been to list only 
those studios that actually want material submitted by 
the new writer, 

ALLAN DWAN PRODUCTIONS, 5341 MEL- 
ROSE AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. In the 
market for high-class plays of almost any type. 

AMERICAN FILM COMPANY, SANTA BAR- 
BARA, CALIF. Want five-reel comedy-dramas and 
five-reel dramas with lots of action. 

ANITA STEWART PRODUCTIONS, INC., 2 
WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Are 
especially anxious to get the film rights for magazine 
stories, books, and plays by famous authors. But are 
also in the market for original material by new writ- 
ers, providing it is suitable for Anita Stewart. 

ARTCRAFT PICTURES CORP. See Famous 
Players-Lasky Corp. 

BESSIE BARRISCALE FEATURES, 5341 
MELROSE AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. In 
the market for five-reel modern comedy-dramas and 
strong western dramas for Miss Barriscale. 

BESSIE LOVE COMPANY, HOLLYWOOD 
STUDIOS, HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. Miss Love is 
in the market for original stories of any type whatso- 
ever, preferring material of an inspirational nature, 
suitable, of course, to herself. 



46 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

CAPITAL FILM CO., 1025 LILLIAN WAY, 
HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. In the market for strong, 
two-reel western dramas depicting the heroic sheriff, 
cowboy or ranch owner, and two-reel railroad stories 
for Helen Gibson, their female star. 

CHARLES RAY, ARTHUR S. KANE PRO- 
DUCTIONS, 452 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK. 
In the market for any kind of good story with a strong 
moral theme and of an inspirational trend. Mr. Ray 
will not limit himself to stories of country life entirely, 
but will be glad to consider any type of manuscript 
having a good male lead. 

CHRISTIE FILM CO., SUNSET BLVD., and 
GOWER ST., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. In the mar- 
ket for light comedies, domestic comedies and farces. 
Parlor comedies centering around the life of romantic 
lovers, treated in a breezy, snappy, humorous manner, 
are especially wanted. This firm will use a great deal 
of the right kind of material. They are also in the 
market for five-reel comedies. 

CRYSTAL FILM CO., 430 CLAREMONT 
PARKWAY, NEW YORK. Want five-reel dramas 
with the every-day American theme. 

DOMINION FILM CORPORATION, 412 
ORPHEUM BLDG., VANCOUVER, B. C, CAN- 
ADA. In the market for five-reel dramas of the big 
timber region or relating to the fishing industries ; also 
big game stories. Western material, Canadian histor- 
ical, or mining industries plots wanted. Also want 
two-reel comedies both straight and slap-stick, together 
with five-reel comedy-dramas and serials of ten ep- 
isodes. Will pay from $500 to $1,000 for each manu- 
script accepted. 

DOROTHY GISH PRODUCTIONS, D. W. 
GRIFFITH STUDIO, ORIENTA POINT, MAMA- 



WHERE TO SELL PHOTOPLAYS 47 

RONECK, N. Y. In the market for high-grade 
comedies of any description, if suitable to Miss Gish. 

DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS PICTURES CORP., 
MELROSE AT BRONSON, HOLLYWOOD, 
CALIF. Glad to consider stories of character with 
lots of outdoor action. Material must be suitable to 
Mr. Fairbanks. 

EASTERN FILM CORPORATION, 1 McKIN- 
LEY STREET, PROVIDENCE, R. I. Are on the 

lookout for all kinds of serials and comedies. 

ESSANAY FILM MANUFACTURING COM- 
PANY, 1333 ARGYLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 
In need of five-reel comedy-dramas and melodramas 
of the better sort. 

EUCLID FILM COMPANY, TOLEDO, OHIO. 
Uses one to five-reel comedies providing they are 
dainty and sentimental. Also in the market for dramas 
of five parts. 

FAMOUS PLAYERS-LASKY FILM COM- 
PANY, 485 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Are 
always in the market for five or six-reel productions 
suitable for the following stars: Elsie Ferguson, 
Marguerite Clark, Billie Burke, Wallace Reid, and 
Bryant Washburn. Also in the market for material 
for the Real Art stars — Mary Miles Minter, Alice 
Brady, and Constance Binney. 

FLORIDA FILM CORP., 22 WEST 9TH ST., 
JACKSONVILLE, FLA. Are in the market for two- 
reel dramas — slap-stick style — in which bathing girls 
and beach scenes predominate. 

FOX FILM CORP., 130 WEST 46th STREET, 
NEW YORK CITY. Are always in the market for 
suitable material for their stars — William Farnum, 
Buck Jones, Tom Mix, Pearl White, George Walsh, 



48 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

William Russell, Gladys Brockwell, and Madlaine 
Traverse. 

FRANK KEENAN PRODUCTIONS, 5341 
MELROSE AVE., HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. Want 
five-reel damas to star Mr. Keenan. Big, strong, timely 
material wanted. Stories should be clean and vigorous 
— should contain both dramatic and comedy possibil- 
ities. 

FROHMAN AMUSEMENT CORP., TIMES 
BLDG., NEW YORK CITY. Anxious to get two- 
reel Western dramas and single and two-reel comedies 
suitable for Texas Guinan, the "female Bill Hart" of 
the screen. 

GOLDWYN PICTURES CORP., 509 FIFTH 
AVE., NEW YORK CITY. Always in the market 
for strong, five-reel emotional dramas for Geraldine 
Farrar and Pauline Frederick, either with American or 
foreign settings. Also comedy-dramas for Madge 
Kennedy; and dramas and comedy-dramas of the ro- 
mantic hero type for Tom Moore. Wants Western 
dramas and comedy-dramas for Will Rogers and boy 
stories and young-man leads for Jack Pickford. 

GRIFFITH PICTURES, 721 LONGACRE 
BLDG., NEW YORK. This company is producing 
manuscripts under the direction of David Wark Grif- 
fith, perhaps the greatest living director. This is an 
excellent market for big ideas; but it is absolutely a 
waste of time for any one except the talented writer to 
submit material. 

J. WARREN KERRIGAN PRODUCTIONS, 
5341 MELROSE AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 
Always in the market for material suitable to Mr. 
Kerrigan. Strong, romantic dramas are the type used. 

KING W. VIDOR PRODUCTIONS, 6642 SAN- 
TA MONICA BLVD., HOLLYWOOD, CALIF. 



WHERE TO SELL PHOTOPLAYS 49 

Mr. Vidor is always on the lookout for a good story. 
He is interested in real, human incidents that ring true 
when pictured on the screen. Mr. Vidor aims to 
picture life outside of the larger cities, but the locale 
to the manuscripts he accepts may be anywhere, pro- 
vided they are not artificial. 

LOUIS GASNIER PRODUCTIONS, GLEN- 
DALE, CALIF. Want material to suit Lew Cody 
and Mae Marsh. Big, emotional roles wanted for the 
latter; general American types wanted for Mr. Cody. 

LOTTIE PICKFORD CO., 5341 MELROSE 
AVE., LOS ANGELES, CALIF. In the market for 
almost any kind of a five or six-part play which offers 
a good feminine role. 

MAURICE TOURNEUR PRODUCTIONS, 
UNIVERSAL CITY, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. In 
the market for almost any kind of a five or six-reel 
production, provided it is strikingly original. Always 
in the market for both comedies and dramas suitable 
for the Mae Allison, Viola Dana, Alice Lake, and 
Bert Lytell. Also in the market for material big 
enough for all-star casts, and especially for exception- 
ally good material for Nazimova, the dramatic Russian 
actress. 

B. S. MOSS MOTION PICTURE CORPORA- 
TION, 729 SEVENTH AVE., NEW YORK. 
Want five-reel productions for both male and female 
leads, including vampire types. 

PARALTA PLAYS, INC., 8 WEST 48TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. In the market for five and 
seven-reel comedy-dramas, vampire stories and other 
material. This company is on the lookout for the big 
theme, the exceptional plot. 

PATHE EXCHANGE, INC., 25 WEST 45TH 



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STREET, NEW YORK. Are always in the mar- 
ket for good serial stories. 

PETROVA PICTURES, 125 WEST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Are on the lookout for im- 
portant five and seven-reel dramas suitable to Madame 
Petrova. 

FRANK P. POWELL PRODUCTIONS, 71 
WEST 23RD STREET, NEW YORK. In the mar- 
ket for five-reel manuscripts with a strong female 
lead. 

RENOWNED PICTURES CORPORATION, 
1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Want photo- 
play material of almost any description, providing it 
has a good lead for an emotional woman. Prefer 
straight dramas, even bordering on the melodramatic, 
with the setting near New York City. 

ROGERS FILM CORP., CAPITOL THEATRE 
BLDG., 1639 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. 
Want manuscripts of children's stories suitable to 
Jane and Katherine Lee. 

SELZNICK PICTURES CORP., 807 EAST 
175TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Want high- 
grade society dramas, with strong comedy touches, 
and good emotional opportunities for Eugene 
O'Brien, Olive Thomas, Elaine Hammerstein, and 
Owen Moore. 

S-L. PICTURES, 1476 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Are in the market for original manuscripts 
dealing with big melodramatic subjects, especially 
when they provide the opportunity for unusual out-of- 
door scenery, lots of action, beautiful gowns, and 
spectacular scenes. 

TRIANGLE FILM CORP., CULVER CITY, 
CALIF. This firm is in the market for wholesome, 
active plays, in which the drama is built up in a 



WHERE TO SELL PHOTOPLAYS 51 

smooth, consecutive manner without resorting to the 
sordid or unpleasant for a smashing climax. Comedy- 
dramas should be from five to seven-reels in length. 
Two-reel domestic comedies also wanted. Can use an 
occasional western story providing it is different from 
the old time "thriller" type. Triangle Pictures do not 
want any sex plays or vampire stories; nothing un- 
clean, suggestive, sordid or unpleasant. They want 
only wholesome productions. 

UNITED PICTURE THEATRES OF AMER- 
ICA, 1600 BROADWAY, NEW YORK CITY. In 
the market for material suitable for Florence Reed. 
They want the production which furnishes constant 
and cumulative movement, culminating in a thrilling 
situation calculated to violently arouse the emotions 
of the audience. These plays should be set in locales 
affording the opportunity to provide elaborate 
settings. The human interest element should pre- 
dominate. 

UNIVERSAL FILM MFG. CO., 1600 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK. In the market for original 
stories of high merit suitable for Priscilla Dean. Miss 
Dean prefers strong, emotional roles. Also in the 
market for ingenue comedy-dramas for Edith Rob- 
erts; society-dramas or stories of the outdoors for 
Frank Mayo; red-blooded adventure stories for Elmo 
Lincoln; serials to feature Eddie Polo and Marie 
Walcamp. Single-reel and two-reel comedies and 
also two-reel western plays wanted. 

V. B. K. FILM CORP., 220 WEST 42ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. In the market for two- 
reel stories for Ernest Truex, stories in which human 
situations of humorous nature are brought out, to- 
gether with strong characterizations for the leads. 

VITAGRAPH CO. OF AMERICA, EAST 15TH 



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STREET AND LOCUST AVE., BROOKLYN, 
N. Y. In the market for five-reel dramas for Alice 
Joyce, Corinne Griffith, Earl Williams and Harry 
Morey. 

WORLD FILM CORPORATION, 130 W. 46TH 
ST., NEW YORK CITY. Wants five-reel dramas 
and comedy dramas for female leads. 



CHAPTER IV. 

JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS. 

THE AMERICAN BOY, DETROIT, MICH. 
Monthly. Griffith Ogden Ellis, Editor. In the mar- 
ket for a better class of stories suitable to boys of from 
twelve to twenty years. The American Boy insists on 
a relatively higher literary standard than many of the 
other juvenile publications. Wants stories of from 
one to four or five thousand words, having strong, 
vigorous, active, quickly-moving plots that grip and 
inspire. And, while plot action of vigorous movement 
is desired, the writer must beware not to border upon 
the sensational, the lurid, the gruesome or other like 
qualities. Clean, healthy stories calculated to inspire 
courage, patriotism, fair play and resourcefulness are 
what is wanted. The editor of The American Boy 
realizes that children do not like to be preached to so 
obviously that they know they are being preached to, 
hence they insist that all stories with a purpose or a 
lesson have these purpose features sifted through the 
screen of adventure. Also in the market for brief ac- 
counts of some unusual things boys can accomplish or 
are attempting, accompanied by suitable photographs. 
Any properly illustrated accounts of new inventions, 
odd occurrences or other quaint objects of interest to 
boys would be welcomed. 

AMERICAN MESSENGER, PARK AVENUE 
AND 40TH STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. 
Rev. Henry Lewis, Editor. Is receiving seasonal 
stories, especially those based upon Christinas, New 
Year's, Thanksgiving, etc. Material may be up to 
2,500 words. Uses a few poems and articles; all ma- 
terial is required to have a religious trend of a Protes- 
tant character. 



54 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

BAPTIST BOYS AND GIRLS, 710 CHEST- 
NUT STREET, NASHVILLE, TENN. Monthly. 
Hight C. Moore, Editor. This is a magazine appeal- 
ing to boys and girls just entering their teens, and in- 
sists that all stories and articles have a dominant moral 
tone throughout. Stories should not exceed 1,600 
words, and, while they may be entertaining stories of 
action, should feature virtue and persistent endeavor 
rewarded. Wants articles of any type that will help the 
magazine's youthful readers to emulate the desirable 
qualities of life as seen in other people, will give them 
something serious and worth while to think about and 
that will work strongly for their future well-being. 

BEACON, 25 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, 
MASS. Weekly. Florence Buck, Editor. Uses 
stories of interest to boys and girls up to fourteen 
years; material should not exceed 2,000 words and 
must have as its primary consideration the instruction 
of the magazine readers in ideals of conduct and life. 
Uses some verse. Photographs for suitable illustra- 
tions of stories and verse are welcomed. 

BOY LIFE, NINTH AND CUTTER STREETS, 
CINCINNATI, OHIO. Weekly. Mrs. Augusta T. 
Errett, Editor. Uses stories of interest to boys from 
twelve to eighteen. This publication wants stories in 
which the moral purpose is subservient to the story in- 
terest. 

BOY'S LIFE— THE BOY SCOUTS' MAGA- 
ZINE, 200 FIFTH AVE., NEW YORK. Monthly. 
F. K. Mathiews, Editor. Wants stories having an 
average length of about 2,500 words. Stories in 
which Boy Scouts are the principal characters and in 
which Boy Scout education for the emergencies of 
life, as well as for good health, mental-alertness and 
practical usefulness, are featured. Stories must be 
entertaining above all else, but must be plausible and 
convincing as well. Articles are wanted featuring 



JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS 55 

Boy Scout activities, properly illustrated. The articles 
should show how quickly the Boy Scouts can arise to 
certain emergencies, accomplish things quickly and 
with adeptness, how to do useful things, how to keep 
healthy, know the life of the woods, to break a camp, 
etc. 

BOY'S MAGAZINE, SCARSDALE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. Uses tales of adventure, featur- 
ing athletics or other phases of life in which boys take 
a keen interest. Also uses anecdotes and incidents of 
practical use and interest to the boy up to seventeen 
years of age. The anecdotes preferably should have 
an inspirational trend, in which the boy is told at- 
tractively and persuasively how other people did cer- 
tain things and in which the ways and means by which 
this success is achieved is clearly and instructively 
pointed out. 

BOYS' WORLD, ELGIN, ILL. Monthly. David 
C. Cook, Editor. In special need of stories of from 
1,000 to 25,000 words for ambitious, keen, vigorous 
and far-sighted boys who are looking ahead to take an 
active part in the world at their maturity. Stories 
should have a decidedly adventure trend in which sus- 
pense is actively employed to create intense interest in 
the predicaments presented. Thus, stories are featured 
in which a boy is the hero in some great enterprise, in 
which the hero goes to some far country or endeavors 
to accomplish something centering around some great 
matter of interest to the present age, such as engineer- 
ing feats, great explorations, scientific discoveries, 
etc. Wants brief articles from one to three or four 
hundred words describing unusual accomplishments 
by boys. Strange happenings in which boys have 
taken prominent parts, interesting things boys have 
done or made and general descriptive information con- 
cerning recent inventions, advances of science, etc. 

CHILD'S GEM, 161 EIGHTH AVENUE, 



56 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

NASHVILLE, TENN. Monthly. Hight C. Moore, 
Editor. This magazine uses material appealing to 
small children, and from three to five or six hundred 
words in length. 

THE CHILDREN'S TRIBUNE, 154 NASSAU 
ST., NEW YORK. Weekly. Anne Lewis Pierce, 
Editor. Wants material suitable for children ten to 
fifteen years of age, not exceeding 1,000 words. Very 
short verses desired. Uses short articles that point 
out briefly some interesting phases of nature or sci- 
ence or the bizarre elements of life of interest to chil- 
dren of this age. 

^ DEW DROPS, ELGIN, ILL. Weekly. David C. 
Cooke, Jr., Editor. Stories used by this magazine 
vary from three to eight hundred words and appeal to 
small children from five to eight years; features ma- 
terial in which children are almost the sole characters. 
Stories to appeal to children of this age necessarily 
must be brief and to the point and should bring for- 
ward only one main thought or theme. And, though 
the stories should be entertaining, they should have a 
certain lesson to impress. Uses some short verse and 
has departments for children, mothers, etc. 

EAST AND WEST, 341 CHURCH STREET, 
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. Weekly. R. 
Douglas Fraser, J. M. Duncan and John Mutch, Edi- 
tors. This is a Presbyterian magazine for children 
featuring stories with the moral object or intent obvi- 
ous. Also uses brief, pertinent and interesting bits 
of information and accounts appealing to children. 

EVERY CHILD'S MAGAZINE, OMAHA, 
NEBR. Monthly. Grace Sorenson, Editor. Features 
articles and accounts of interesting travels and people 
and events that will entertain young readers and help 
them in their daily occupations. Uses stories under 
1,500 words in length and maintains a high standard 



JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS 57 

for its verse. Also wants photographs of interesting 
children. 

FAME AND FORTUNE, 166 WEST 23RD 
STREET, NEW YORK. Weekly. Harry W. Wolff, 
Publisher. This publication is one of a series of the 
well-known Wild- West and Liberty Boys of '76 series 
of novelettes and stories in which the hero is a young 
man who comes against overwhelming odds, achieves 
a sensational victory over his opponents and comes out 
smilingly triumphant in the end. Stories sent to this 
publication should feature adventure stories with a 
zip and a bang, stories in which the hero seems to have 
marshalled against him all the forces of evil and in- 
trigue and which he vanquishes in a breathless, hair- 
raising fashion. 

FORWARD, WITHERSPOON BLDG., PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. Weekly. John T. Faris, Editor. 
This is a good market for boys' and girls' stories of 
approximately 3,000 words in length. Uses serials of 
about 15,000 words, as well as descriptive articles with- 
in 1,200 words, of general interest to young people. 
Articles should be accompanied by appropriate photo- 
graphs. 

GIRLS' COMPANION, ELGIN, ILL. Weekly. 
David C. Cook, Editor. Uses material of interest to 
girls of from 12 to 16 years in which story interest 
is prominent, yet not too prominent. This publication 
is distributed in Sunday Schools and, besides fiction, 
uses short articles, accompanied by appropriate photo- 
graphs, giving valuable suggestions and ideas that will 
help a girl in her daily life, together with short, brief 
accounts of interesting places and scenes. 

GIRLS' WORLD, 1701 CHESTNUT STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. A. Edith Meyers, 
Editor. Readers of this journal range from 12 to 16 
years in age. This publication is representative of the 



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juvenile magazines using the ordinary range of ma- 
terial, in this case, of course, restricted to girls. Want 
stories, serials and articles of general interest, from 
500 to 1,000 words, properly exploited by photographs ; 
also general material pertaining to the Sunday-school, 
girls' clubs and the like. 

GOLDEN NOW, ELGIN, ILL. Weekly. This 
is a Sunday-school paper appealing only to mothers of 
small children and is calculated to point out the most 
effective means of making religion attractive to chil- 
dren and for bringing them to a proper understanding 
of their place in God's world. Also uses short articles 
up to 500 words in length giving mothers practical 
advice concerning the care of infants. 

JOHN MARTIN'S BOOK, 128 WEST 58th 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. John Martin, 
Editor. This publication maintains a rather high 
literary standard and insists that its stories, which 
range up to approximately 1,000 words in length, get 
across simultaneously with the reader's seeing the 
words. Sentences should be short, the stories based on 
one theme briefly treated. For the editors of John 
Martin's Book have found that a child's interest is not 
maintained at a high level for a long period of time. 
The story material should be entertaining and not obvi- 
ously instructive, but rather subtly and suggestively 
so. Features stories that avoid the ordinary bug-a-boos 
and inspired myths that usually accompany childhood 
and originate in the adult mind. Stories must be clean, 
spirited and lively ; humor is especially desired. In the 
market for well-written verse directed to the juvenile 
minds. Children, of course, do not easily grasp poetry 
of idea but do enjoy descriptive verses as well as the 
narrative ones. 

JUNIOR CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR WORLD, 
31 MOUNT VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
Monthly. Amos R. Wells, Editor. Wants short 



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stories of about 1,500 words and serials in approxi- 
mately twelve chapters, 1,500 words each, for boys 
and girls. Stories may be humorous. Also want the 
ordinary article of about 500 words, properly photo- 
graphed, featuring travel, biography, science and the 
like. 

THE JUNIOR YANKS, 144 SOUTH WABASH 
AVE., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. This publication 
was first founded in the interest of the Universal Train- 
ing idea but has come to embrace a larger scope and 
now has as its policy the inspiration of a strong patriot- 
ism and the value of a diligent, honest citizenship in 
the young boys. Wants stories that inculcate re- 
sourcefulness, love of country, the ascendency of right 
over might, sound, instructive citizenship and the like. 
Also can use a regular run of articles of general interest 
to young boys. Articles must be accompanied by suit- 
able photographs. 

KIND WORDS, 161 EIGHTH AVENUE, 
NORTH, NASHVILLE, TENN. Weekly. Hight C. 
Moore, Editor. Prefers stories of not more than 2,000 
words in length stressing the noble qualities of man 
and woman, such as heroism and courage. Uses also 
serials of 12 chapters, each chapter of approximately 
1,200 words. Particularly desires brief, descriptive, 
travel and biographical articles of general interest. 

JUNIOR WORLD, 1701 CHESTNUT STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Monthly. Nan F. Weeks, 
Editor. Reports that their readers range from nine to 
twelve years in age and their stories cover 500 to 
2,500 words in length; uses the ordinary type of inter- 
esting article of from 300 to 500 words. Has depart- 
ment for handicraft work. 

KING'S TREASURIES, WITHERSPOON 
BLDG., PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. John T. 
Faris, Editor A paper distributed in Sunday-schools 



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and among boys of from 10 to 14 years of age. 
Stories of approximately 2,500 words, uses serials of 
about eight chapters, 2,500 words each; uses illus- 
trated and unillustrated articles of from 300 to 1,000 
words of interest to boys. 

LITTLE FOLKS, SALEM, MASS. Monthly. 
Marguerita O. Osborn, Editor. In need of stories fea- 
turing children in realistic, though interesting, pos- 
tures and actions. Uses some verse and short articles 
of general interest to children. 

ONWARD, CORNER QUEEN AND JOHN 
STS., TORONTO, ONT., CANADA Weekly. 
Rev. Dr. A. C. Crews, Editor. This is a Canadian 
publication that solicits stories from the United States. 
The stories usually are religious in tone and have a 
moral intent behind them; this publication appeals to 
the general family, not merely to the juvenile reader. 

MAYFLOWER, PILGRIM PRESS, BOSTON, 
MASS. Weekly. Frances Weld Danielson, Editor. 
Wants children's stories of 300 to 800 words, as well 
as verse and photographs of interesting children, or 
the interesting conditions under which children live 
and move about. 

ONWARD, BOX 11 76, RICHMOND, VA. 
Weekly. Wade C. Smith, Editor. Uses stories of in- 
terest to boys and girls whose purpose is to acquaint 
the reader with practical and interesting phases of 
life; to teach the girls gardening and the principal 
arts of life about the home and to instruct the boys in 
activities similar to those featured by the Boy Scouts. 
Stories should be uplifting in tone and range from 
twelve to fifteen hundred words; also uses articles, 
with suitable photographs, featuring events of today. 

OUR LITTLE FRIEND, MOUNTAIN VIEW, 
CALIF. Weekly. Uthai Vincent Wilcox, Editor. 
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JUVENILE PUBLICATIONS 61 

Stories that the young mind can use as a criterion for 
moral conduct; uses short serials of four installments, 
each installment approximating 250 words. Nature 
stories in demand, as well as stories of bird and animal 
life. Conducts department of the ordinary type fea- 
turing puzzles, handicraft and pictures to cut out. 

OUR LITTLE PEOPLE, FARMINGTON, ME. 
Monthly. H. L. Goodwin, Editor. This publication 
in its material seems to reflect the life, the purpose and 
advancement of the school and school life; it appeals 
directly to children of about 10 years of age. 

PICTURE WORLD, 1816 CHESTNUT 
STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. James 
McConaughy, Editor. A paper for children distrib- 
uted in Sunday schools; readers under 12 years of age. 
Uses stories of about six or seven hundred words, as 
well as short verses. Photographs and illustrations 
should accompany material that is adapted for pic- 
torial representation. 

ROUND TABLE, 2712 PINE STREET, ST. 
LOUIS, MO. Weekly. W. W. Dowling, Editor. 
Uses short stories of interest to boys. The type de- 
sired averages about 2,000 words and should be lively, 
interesting, healthy in tone and instructive. 

ST. NICHOLAS MAGAZINE, 353 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. William Fayal 
Clarke, Editor. One of the leading juvenile publica- 
tions having a high literary standard; appeals to the 
most cultured, well-off and educated juvenile readers. 
Uses stories having quite a latitude of appeal as far as 
the ages of the prospective readers are concerned. 
The material ranges in length from 1,500 to 3,500 or 
4,000 words ; plots dedicated to character drawing are 
preferred to all others, stories in which the reader sees 
himself as the hero or heroine and receives valuable 
lessons therefrom. Articles of general interest are de- 



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sired, for this magazine appeals to the middle-aged 
child as well as the young man and the young woman 
of the high school age. Articles cover the ground of 
invention, science, accomplishment in matters social or 
the outdoors, also articles covering great undertakings, 
travels, unique experiences, biographies and so on. 
Verse for the small children is desired. 

SOMETHING DOING, NINTH AND CUTTER 
STREETS, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Weekly. J. D. 
Murch, Editor. Uses stories for children up to and 
including 18 years of age and featuring the world of 
accomplishment and the reward that comes to those 
who go after things in a determined way. 

SUNBEAM, 1 3 19 WALNUT STREET, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. Uses short stories of interest to 
very small children, containing helpful advice and in- 
struction. Uses some verse, a few photographs and 
jingles. 

THE WATCHWORD, OTTERBEIN PRESS, 
DAYTON, OHIO. Weekly. H. F. Shupe, Editor. 
Wants articles of timely interest on such subjects as 
biography, success, accomplishment, travel and the 
like. Also some serials of from eight to twenty chap- 
ters, 2,000 to 2,500 words each. 

WELLSPRING— FOR YOUNG P EOPLE, 14 
BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Weekly. 
M. D. Hazard, Ph. D. Appeals to young boys and 
girls of Congregationalist faith, 10 to 16 years of age. 
Wants anecdotes, verse and interesting accounts. 
Uses articles from 300 to 800 words of a general char- 
acter having as their object the moral instruction and 
uplift of the child. 

WHAT TO DO, ELGIN, ILL. Weekly. David 
C. Cook, Jr., Editor. Appeals to boys and girls from 
nine to twelve years of age. Wants stories of ap- 
proximately 1,500 to 1,600 words featuring boys and 



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girls of about 12, in which juvenile characters figure 
actively in bringing about the course of their future 
existence. If adults are brought into stories, they 
should be subordinate to the juvenile characters who 
are intent upon solving problems themselves and by 
means and methods of their own. The action must be 
exciting and swift, and there must be considerable op- 
position to the peaceful course of the story. Articles 
of a practical nature, suggesting how to do various 
hings of interest to the young individual, are in de- 
mand; these articles may cover construction of certain 
things, the earning of money, conduct and deport- 
ment, and the like. Each number of this publication 
features a story of approximately 1,000 words of in- 
terest to a boy and one of interest to a girl. These 
stories continue the editorial policy of having the 
characters bring about their own successful advance in 
an active, energetic and entertaining way. While the 
story material should entertain above all else, it must 
also contain such a strong moral and lesson that the 
result cannot be misinterpreted by the reader and the 
story remain in the reader's mind as a permanent ex- 
ample of certain virtues and qualities, the rewards 
they bring and what they mean. Nature stories, 
myths and fairy tales are also in demand and, like 
Aesop's Fables, must all be based upon moral features. 

THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN, 484 MILWAU- 
KEE STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Weekly. F. 
C. Morehouse, Editor. Appeals to boys and girls of 
12 to 16; stories must come within 2,000 words and 
should be lively and purposeful. Uses photographs 
and articles, 800 to 1,200 words, of a juvenile appeal. 

YOUNG CRUSADER, 1730 CHICAGO AVE., 
EVANSTON, ILL. Monthly. Miss Windsor Grow, 
Editor. As the title of this magazine implies, the 
whole aim and purpose is a crusade against the avoid- 
able evil influences that are daily brought to bear upon 



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the American youth; such evils encompass intemperance, 
cigarettes, etc. Stories encouraging the banishment of 
these evils, from 1,000 to 12,000 words, are in demand, 
as are serials having about this number of words to 
the chapter. Also conducts number of departments for 
the social, moral and mental betterment of the youth. 

YOUNG EVANGELIST, 2712 PINE STREET, 
ST. LOUIS, MO. Weekly. Uses stories of 500 to 
1,500 words bearing out ethical instructions, though it 
is insisted that the stories be interesting. It is a mag- 
azine of sectarian appeal for boys and girls of 8 to 10. 

YOUNG FOLKS, 1716 ARCH STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. W. L. Hunton, 
D.D., Editor. Requirements comprise stories of two 
to three thousand words and serials of various chapter 
lengths within a twelve time limit; illustrated articles 
are acceptable. 

YOUNG PEOPLE, 1701 CHESTNUT STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. Frank Otis Ert, 
Ph.D., Editor. This publication appeals to boys of 
near-maturity, and its fiction must have a lofty moral 
accent. Short serials are acceptable as well as illustrated 
articles of about 1,500 words. The short-story fiction 
should fall within a 3,000 word limit. 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER, 1816 CHESTNUT 
STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly; 2,000 
word stories of interest to children in their early teens 
are desired, as well as articles of general young-folk 
interest. 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S WEEKLY, 1142 WRIGHT- 
WOOD AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. 
David C. Cook, Editor. A sectarian publication ap- 
pealing to youths of 12 to 16, featuring bright, enter- 
taining, though ethical, stories. Uses inspirational ac- 
counts and articles from 100 to 500 words, preferably 
illustrated. 



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THE YOUTH'S COMPANION, 881 COMMON- 
WEALTH AVENUE, BOSTON, MASS. Weekly. 
Charles Miner Thompson, Editor. This publication 
has a wide appeal; it is of interest to the entire family, 
not merely to the juvenile, in that it stresses more 
youthful enthusiasm and optimism than predicaments 
that are purely juvenile in aspect. Fiction for Youth's 
Companion may run up to 3,500 words. The material 
is largely character-building in type and, to make the 
exemplifications of type characters and certain traits 
of human nature more impressive, Youth's Companion 
stories must work out each characterization through 
one incident or one situation which is dealt with inten- 
sively and which derives additional power and im- 
portance from the fact that the future welfare of the 
main individual or individuals concerned in the story 
is decided by the movement of this one situation. This 
magazine does not want the religious, or sentimental 
or goody-goody, mawkish story but rather the one 
that writes up human nature from a realistic, healthy, 
vigorous and practical stand-point; articles of prob- 
lem are in demand, that is, articles that portray the 
methods by which a boy or a girl overcome a tremen- 
dous obstacle and accomplish something or solve a prob- 
lem that means much to him and others. These articles 
may take a practical direction in showing how certain 
things may be done or made. 

YOUTH'S WORLD, 1701 CHESTNUT ST., 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Monthly. W. Edward 
Raffety, Editor. Especially wants articles of general 
interest to boys of 13 to 16 years, articles stressing in- 
vention, science, travel, biography, curious happenings 
and the like; photographs are desired. Uses short 
stories of from 2,000 to 2,500 words; also serials of 
6 to 8 chapters, each chapter of 2,000 to 2,500 words. 
This is a market, too, for short, snappy, to-the-point 
editorials of uplift and of interest to boys. 



CHAPTER V. 
AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED PERIODICALS. 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST 315 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Weekly. Charles W. 
Burkett, Editor. Uses love stories of from 1,500 to 
3,000 words in length. The wholsome, happy theme 
preferred. Uses some lyric verse of high sentiment. 
Also novelettes of 20,000 words and articles of 750 to 
1,000 words relating to agricultural and farm subjects. 
These may be practical or scientific. 

AMERICAN BEE JOURNAL, HAMILTON, 
ILL. Monthly. C. P. Dadant, Editor. Uses articles 
about bees. 

AMERICAN BREEDER, 225 WEST 12th ST., 
KANSAS CITY, MO. Semi-monthly. Frank B. 
Graham and T. W. Morse, Editors. Articles of 500 
to 1,000 words in length about the raising of live-stock 
and cattle. 

AMERICAN CO-OPERATIVE JOURNAL, 230 
SOUTH LA SALLE STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 
Monthly. Millard R. Myers, Editor. Short stories 
of 2,000 to 3,000 words of interest to farmers. Short 
articles of 1,200 to 2,000 words on co-operative mar- 
keting of farm products. 

AMERICAN FARMING, 537 SOUTH DEAR- 
BORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Paul 
Stephens, Editor. Uses stories of 5,000 to 15,000 
words if full of action. Uses short 500 word articles 
on actual farm experiences. Photographs should ac- 
company articles. An especially good market for 
photographs of interest to farmers. 

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GROWER, 817 EXCHANGE STREET, CHICAGO, 
ILL. Monthly. W. W. Burch, Editor. Articles on 
sheep and wool, with photographs if possible. 

AMERICAN SWINEHERD, 407 SOUTH 
DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
Practical articles relating to hog raising. 

AMERICAN THRESHERMAN, MADISON, 
WIS. Monthly. B. B. Clarke, Editor. Uses illus- 
trated articles. Short stories of 500 to 2,500 words. 
Short helpful articles for the farmer's wife. 

BETTER FARMING, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
Frederick L. Chapman, Editor. Short, terse articles 
of from 800 to 2,000 words. Some photographs of 
interest to farmers. 

BREEDER'S GAZETTE, 542 DEARBORN 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Alvin H. 
Sanders, Editor. Short articles and photographs of 
interest to stock raisers. 

BUFFALO COUNTY FARMER, KEARNEY, 
NEB. Monthly. Edgar A. Hale, Editor. General 
articles, juvenile matter, short stories of 1,000 to 1,500 
words, humorous verse and jokes, also photographs. 

CALIFORNIA HOMESTEAD, 128 G STREET, 
SAN DIEGO, CALIF. Monthly. H. P. Rising, Edi- 
tor. Uses a few short stories. Especially wants 
articles interesting to the homesteader. 

CANADIAN COUNTRYMAN, 14 McCAUL 
STREET, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. 
Weekly. H. S. Fry, Editor. Uses short stories of 
from 2,000 to 2,500 words with farm appeal. Good 
farm verse wanted. About three serials yearly. Also 
Canadian pictures and articles of 2,000 words relating 
to agriculture in Eastern Canada. 

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TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. Semi-weekly. 
Few stories, some household helps and many articles 
of interest to Canadians. 

CANADIAN HORTICULTURIST, PETER- 
BOROUGH, ONTARIO, CANADA. Monthly. 
Bronson Cowan, Editor. Articles relating to growing 
of fruit and vegetables commercially, and the grow- 
ing of fruit, flowers and vegetables by amateurs. 

CORN BELT FARMER, WATERLOO, IOWA. 
Monthly. Harry B. Clark, Editor. Short articles of 
interest to corn raisers. 

THE COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, INDEPEND- 
ENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. 
Barton W. Currie, Editor. High class publication 
gotten out by the Curtis Publishing Company who 
publish The Saturday Evening Post and The Ladies' 
Home Journal. Nearly every article used in this 
magazine is written by a staff-writer or some promi- 
nent person who has been a contributor for many 
years. They do buy considerable fiction from outside 
sources, however. Generally use one short story 
each week and one serial. Fiction should relate to 
country life and should not exceed six thousand 
words. Buys jokes and sketches for department 
called Chaff. Also sketches and photographs for 
Handy Farm Mechanics' department. This magazine 
should be studied by prospective contributors. 

COUNTRY HOMES, NEW YORK. Monthly. 
F. Heath Coggins, Editor. Uses only articles of 400 
to 2,500 words relating to suburban or country homes 
— decorative treatment, interior furnishings, lighting 
effects, and such interest. 

EVERYBODY'S POULTRY MAGAZINE, 
HANOVER, PA. Monthly. Henry P. Schwab, Edi- 
tor. Short articles about poultry raisers. 



AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED PERIODICALS 69 

FARM AND FIRESIDE, SPRINGFIELD, 
OHIO. Monthly. Harry M. Ziegler, Editor. Humor- 
ous or dramatic stories of 2,500 to 3,500 words, if 
they appeal to both men and women. Uses a few four- 
part serials 8,000 to 16,000 words in length with lots 
of action. Western, mystery or adventure stories pre- 
ferred. Articles relating to farming, community ac- 
tivities and household articles of interest to people in 
villages and on farms wanted. Personal stories of suc- 
cess wanted. Some verse for children used. Uses 
short articles of 200 to 700 words for department re- 
lating to automobiles, dairying, live-stock raising, 
poultry raising, the garden, orchard, household, crops, 
soils, machinery, etc. 

FARM AND HOME, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 
Monthly. Edwin C. Powell, Editor. Agriculture 
articles of 300 to 600 words. Also illustrated agricul- 
tural magazine feature articles of 1,200 to 1,500 words. 

FARM AND HOME MECHANICS, 141 1 WY- 
ANDOTTE STREET, KANSAS CITY, MO. 
Monthly. G. W. Ryan, Editor. Illustrated articles of 
from 300 to 400 words dealing with farm mechanics. 
Brief articles especially desirable if descriptive of 
labor-saving devices for use on the farm or farm 
household. 

FARM AND RANCH, DALLAS, TEXAS. 
Weekly. Rufus J. Nelson, Editor. Uses serials and 
short stories, humor and anecdotes, and informative 
articles. 

FARM AND REAL ESTATE JOURNAL, 
TRAER, IOWA. Monthly. C. C. Wood, Editor. 
Market for 1,500 word articles, illustrated, relating to 
the ' 'back-to-the-land" movement. 

FARM JOURNAL, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 
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of less than 700 words and serials of 1,200 words. 
Clean, wholesome fiction wanted. Need not necessarily 
pertain to farms. Short articles relating to farms used. 

FARM LIFE, SPENCER, IND. Monthly. 
George Weymouth, Editor. Authoritative stories of 
farm life wanted. Also verses, anecdotes, experience 
articles relating to country life, and photographs. 

FARM MECHANICS, 1827 PRAIRIE AVE., 
CHICAGO, ILL. Bernard L. Johnson, Editor. Uses 
illustrated articles dealing with tractors, tractor-hauled 
instruments, improved farm inplements, modern im- 
provements and conveniences for farm and home, 
water supply, farm house plumbing, sewage disposal, 
modern lighting, heating and designing of the modern 
farm home. Articles should contain lots of human 
nature but must be based upon facts. Always in the 
market for good photographs. 

FARMER AND BREEDER, 312 IOWA ST, 
SIOUX CITY, IOWA. Semi-monthly. H. A. Bere- 
man, Editor. Articles about agricultural success, 
poultry, live stock, dairy, crops and the soil. Photo- 
graphs always wanted. 

FARMER AND STOCKMAN, KANSAS CITY, 
MO. Weekly. James Atkinson and H. R. Nelson, 
Editors. Uses short items interesting to stockmen. 

FARMER'S ADVOCATE AND HOME MAG- 
AZINE, LONDON, ONTARIO, CANADA. Weekly. 
Short articles interesting to stock raisers, farmers, 
dairymen, etc. 

FARMER'S MAGAZINE, 143 UNIVERSITY 
AVENUE, TORONTO, ONTARIO CANADA. 
Monthly. F. M. Chapman, Editor. Terse, accurate 
articles of 25,000 words relating to live stock and 
power farming subjects. Photographs of live stock 
with scenery and road-scenes considered. 



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FARMER'S SUCCESS, RED BANK, N. J. 
Monthly. Elmer C. Winright, Editor. Uses serials, 
novelettes, verse, anecdotes, humor, short stories, 
special articles and photographs relating to everything 
on the farm. 

THE FARMER'S WIFE, ST. PAUL, MINN. 
Monthly. Leonarda Goss, Editor. Clean love stories, 
mystery stories and children-interest stories of from 
2,500 to 6,000 words. Also serials of 20,000 words 
and some brief "filler" in the form of verse. 

FIELD-ILLUSTRATED, 2 WEST 45TH ST., 
NEW YORK. Monthly. G. Howard Davidson, Edi- 
tor. Interesting and accurate articles relating to live 
stock, agriculture, farm life, country estates and sim- 
ilar subjects. 

GARDEN MAGAZINE, GARDEN CITY, N. Y. 
Monthly. Leonard Barron, Editor. Uses short, in- 
structive articles, 2,000 words or less, on gardening 
and horticulture. Especially interested in articles re- 
lating to the successful growing of plants under diffi- 
cult conditions, with photographs if possible. 

GLEANER, 129 FORT STREET, WEST, DE- 
TROIT, MICH. Semi-monthly. Grant S locum, Edi- 
tor. Short 800- word articles relating to farm subjects. 

GREEN'S AMERICAN FRUIT GROWER, 
MARQUETTE BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
Samuel Adams, Editor. Articles of 200 to 500 words 
on fruit growing. Must be actual experiences. 

GULF STATES FARMER, I. & C. BLDG., NEW 
ORLEANS, LA. Monthly. Edward O. Wild, Edi- 
tor. Articles relating to rice, cotton, corn and all 
farming subjects. 

HORSE WORLD, 1028-30 MARINE BANK 
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Editor. Short articles of interest to owners of race- 
horses, ponies and pure-bred live-stock. 

HOUSE AND GARDEN, 31 EAST 17th ST., 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Richardson Wright, Edi- 
tor. Uses many articles on architecture, gardening, 
and interior decorating, especially when accompanied 
by photographs. Articles and photographs of both 
large and small houses wanted. Everything must be 
distinctively American. Landscape gardening also 
discussed. 

HOUSE BEAUTIFUL, 3 PARK STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. Grace Atkinson Kim- 
ball, Editor. Practical articles about houses, interior 
decorating and landscape gardening, preferably il- 
lustrated. 

INTERNATIONAL PLYMOUTH ROCK 
JOURNAL, UNION CITY, MICH. Monthly. W. 
L. Robinson, Editor. Short articles about Plymouth 
Rock poultry. 

IRRIGATION AGE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. 
Monthly. D. H. Anderson, Editor. Articles relating 
to irrigation, land, soil and allied subjects. 

JERSEY BULLETIN AND DAIRY WORLD, 
CENTURY BLDG., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
Weekly. Roger H. Brown, Editor. Short articles re- 
lating to dairying and other farm subjects, with photo- 
graphs if possible. 

JOURNAL, LEWISTON, ME. Weekly. F. L. 
Dingley, Editor. Uses almost anything interesting 
about Maine people. 

KIMBALL'S DAIRY FARMER, COLUMBUS, 
OHIO. Semi-monthly. Hugh G. Van Pelt, Editor. 
Illustrated articles relating to all branches of farm 
work. 



AGRICULTURAL AND ALLIED PERIODICALS 73 

LANDSCAPE ARCHITECTURE, 15 EAST 40th 
STREET, NEW YORK. Quarterly. Authoritative 
2,000 word articles relating to theoretical and practi- 
cal landscape gardening. 

MICHIGAN BUSINESS FARMING, MT. 
CLEMENS, MICH. Weekly. F. A. Lord, Editor. 
Always wants actual experiences of rural life. Prefer 
articles touching on the business side of farming. 
Photographs always acceptable. 

MICHIGAN FARMER, 39-45 CONGRESS ST., 
WEST, DETROIT, MICH. Weekly. I. R. Water- 
bury, Editor. Illustrated experience articles interest- 
ing to boys and girls, 1,000 words or less in length. 
Also farm experience articles from Michigan writers. 

MILK NEWS, 29 SOUTH LA SALLE STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. W. J. Kittle, Editor. 
Practical articles of interest to milk producers, distribu- 
tors or users. 

MILK TRADE JOURNAL, COLUMBUS, OHIO. 
Monthly. E. T. Saddler, Editor. Articles relating to 
milk dealing, with photographs if possible. 

MISSOURI FARMER, COLUMBIA, MO. Semi- 
monthly. George B. Ellis, Editor. Very brief articles 
relating to the farm and home. 

MISSOURI VALLEY FARMER, TOPEKA, 
KANS. Monthly. Charles Dillon, Editor. Serials of 
love and adventure up to 100,000 words. Articles of 
interest to general farmers and relating to agriculture, 
live stock, poultry, etc. A few anecdotes. Photo- 
graphs always wanted. 

NATIONAL ALFALFA JOURNAL, OTIS 
BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. O. S. Jones, 
Editor. Short articles of farm successes of local in- 
terest. Photographs wanted. 



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NATIONAL REAL ESTATE JOURNAL, 812 
MERCHANTS BANK BLDG., INDIANAPOLIS, 
IND. Monthly. H. L. Freking, Editor. Uses articles 
of interest to real estate brokers and investors, and es- 
pecially suggestions relating to office building manage- 
ment and so forth, when accompanied by photographs. 

NEBRASKA FARM JOURNAL, OMAHA, 
NEB. Semimonthly. A. G. Kittel, Editor. Experi- 
ence articles from local writers. Farm interest. 

NEBRASKA FARMER, LINCOLN, NEBR. 
Weekly. S. R. McKelvie, Editor. Unsophisticated 
stories of rural interest with not over 1,500 words. 
Also special articles relating to agricultural purposes 
if illustrated. 

THE NEW COUNTRY LIFE, GARDEN CITY, 
N. Y. Monthly. Henry H. Saylor, Editor. Uses 
high-class articles relating to out-of-the-way country 
places, gardens by the sea, sports and recreations of 
outdoor people and almost any kind of a short author- 
itative article of interest to the country home dwellers. 

NEW ENGLAND HOMESTEAD, MYRICK 
BLDG., SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Weekly. G. G. 
Sevey, Editor. Uses a few serials of 20,000 to 30,000 
words and articles relating to agriculture. Occasional 
verse used. 

NORTHWEST FARMSTEAD, ONEIDABLDG., 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Weekly. William Allen, 
Editor. Short human-interest stories of 2,000 to 4,000 
words. Occasional serial of 20,000 words. Some ag- 
ricultural articles. 

OHIO FARMER, ion CLEVELAND AVENUE, 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. Weekly. John F. Cun- 
ningham, Editor. Short stories of about 1,000 to 2,500 
words; serials up to 300,000 words; novelettes of from 



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10,000 to 20,000 words. Some special articles and 
photographs relating to Ohio farmers. 

ORANGE JUDD FARMER, 30 NORTH MICHI- 
GAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. A. C. 
Page, Editor. Serials of 20,000 to 40,000 words with 
human-interest note. Also good agricultural articles. 

ORCHARD AND FARM, EXAMINER BLDG., 
LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Monthly. Bailey Millard, 
Editor. Practical and authoritative articles relating to 
poultry, irrigation, fruit growing, stock-raising and 
allied subjects. 

OREGON COUNTRYMAN, CORVALLIS, 
ORE. Monthly. Melvin W. McMindes, Editor. 
Short fiction, verse and special articles. 

PACIFIC DAIRY REVIEW, 78 CLAY STREET, 
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Weekly. William H. 
Saylor, Editor. Articles relating to dairy husbandry, 
if illustrated. Also photographs relating to dairy 
husbandry. 

POULTRY HERALD, SHUBERT BLDG., ST. 
PAUL, MINN. Monthly. Harold A. Nourse, Edi- 
tor. Articles not over 2,000 words relating to poultry 
raising, etc. Especially anxious for photographs of 
ideal poultry yards and plants. 

POWER FARMING, ST. JOSEPH, MICH. 
Monthly. Raymond Olney, Editor. Uses 500 to 
3,000 word articles relating to farming with mechanical 
power. Articles should deal with motor trucks, sta- 
tionary and portable engines, motor cultivators, trac- 
tors, and all mechanically operated implements and ma- 
chines for farming. Articles should preferably be 
based on interviews and visits with farmers who have 
used this equipment. All articles must be specific and 
accurate. Photographs illustrating above phases 
wanted. All articles should be well illustrated. 



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PRODUCER AND CONSUMER, DES 
MOINES, IOWA. Monthly. William Wilkinson, 
Editor. Short articles on farm and household eco- 
nomics wanted, providing the entire family is consid- 
ered in these articles. 

PROGRESSIVE FARMER, RALEIGH, N. C. 
Weekly. Clarence Poe, Editor. Brief articles 1,000 
to 1,500 words relating to accomplished things in agri- 
culture. 

SAFE FARMING, DUBUQUE, IOWA. Month- 
ly. Fred W. Clute, Editor. Short articles of 500 
words relating to white mice, Belgian hares, medicinal 
herbs, etc. A children's story each month. Fiction 
should have farm setting. 

SOUTHERN AGRICULTURIST, NASH- 
VILLE, TENN. Semi-monthly. E. E. Miller, Edi- 
tor. Short, practical articles relating to agriculture 
in Tennessee, Kentucky and adjoining Southern 
States, especially if accompanied by photographs. 

SOUTHERN FRUIT GROWER, CHAMBER- 
LAIN BLDG., CHATTANOOGA, TENN. Month- 
ly. Robert Sparks Walker, Editor. Uses articles of 
from 1,000 to 1,500 words, but must be illustrated and 
relating to phases of fruit growing. 

SUCCESSFUL FARMING, DES MOINES, 
IOWA. Monthly. Alson Secor, Editor. Very 
little fiction. Articles of general interest to country 
people, when illustrated. 

SYSTEM ON THE FARM, CHICAGO, ILL. 
Monthly. John W. Beatty, Editor. No fiction. 
Prefers articles of first-person experiences of farmers 
especially when they have actually brought dollars- 
and-cents profit. No limit to length. But every 
story must be complete. Do not want stories about 
farming but stories of methods used in farming. Fact, 
not theory, wanted. 



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WALLACE'S FARMER, DES MOINES, IOWA. 
Weekly. Henry Wallace, Editor. Short articles of 
help to a farmer in handling his soil, crops, etc., es- 
pecially when illustrated. 

WESTERN EMPIRE, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 
Monthly. William E. Smythe, Editor. Brief ex- 
periences related to agricultural and industrial Cali- 
fornia. 

WESTERNER, 18 POST-INTELLIGENCER 
BLDG., SEATTLE, WASH. Monthly. Edgar 
Hampton, Editor. Short-story manuscripts if 
active and treating of love. Some articles dealing 
with western farm problems. 

THE WESTERN FARMER, 215 OREGONIAN 
BLDG., PORTLAND, ORE. Semi-monthly. E. 
E. Favill, Editor; 500 to 1,000 word articles on agri- 
cultural topics, especially if based on experience. 

WESTERN FARM LIFE, DENHAM BLDG., 
DENVER, COLO. Semi-monthly. Alvin T. Steinel, 
Editor. Special articles relating to the Rocky Moun- 
tain region. 

WISCONSIN FARMER, MADISON, WIS. 
Weekly. James Atkinson, Editor. Short, practical 
articles, especially when relating to the up-to-date farm 
and of interest to women. Photographs wanted. 



CHAPTER VI. 

RELIGIOUS PUBLICATIONS. 

Note : A large number of religious publications, in- 
cluding mostly the Bible Lesson Quarterlies and the 
small weeklies, have been omitted from this list for the 
reason that material is contributed by the editorial 
staff or is offered gratis by the writer. In endeavoring 
to make the present list of markets as practical as pos- 
sible we have thought best to omit those that did not 
offer some monetary reward for the offering of physi- 
cal and mental energy. In this, as in other lines, the 
labor is surely worthy of his hire; consequently we 
have introduced only those publications that make a 
fair return for acceptable material. 

A large portion of these sectarian publications ap- 
proximate each other in the kind of material wanted. 
Stories of from 500 to 3,000 words reflecting the 
church-life and the home-life under happy influences, 
as well as articles pertaining to the particular church 
denominations of particular magazines and material 
relating to the church in all its activities and endeavors, 
illustrated or otherwise, are in demand. If you will 
take the time and trouble to go over a few of these pub- 
lications, you will then have found out what, in the 
large, all of them want. Of course, a Catholic publica- 
tion will want material of interest to Catholics, where- 
as a Protestant publication will desire material suiting 
the aims and interests of the Protestant churches. 

ADULT STUDENT, NASHVILLE, TENN. 
Monthly. E. B. Chappell, Editor. Wants articles per- 
taining to social and religious activities, and endeavors 
to strike a tone that will inspire the reader to a more 
vigorous Christianity and citizenship. 



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AMERICAN HEBREW, 489 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. Weekly. Herman Bernstein, Editor. 
Uses some short fiction reflecting the life from the 
Jewish standpoint; also anecdotes, articles, accounts, 
verse, etc., with the Jewish tinge. 

AMERICAN MESSENGER, PARK AVENUE 
AND 40th STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Rev. 
Henry Lewis, Editor. Protestant. Uses poems, arti- 
cles and photographs of religious character. 

BAPTIST STANDARD, 711 SLAUGHTER 
BLDG., DALLAS, TEXAS. Weekly. E. C. Routh, 
Editor. Uses stories of religious background, as well 
as articles from 1,500 to 4,000 words in length, stress- 
ing beneficial, moral lessons. 

BAPTIST WORKER, GRANITE, OKLA. 
Weekly. Rev. A. Nunnery, Editor. Articles and 
verses of religious character ; material may range from 
500 to 1,500 words. 

BENZINGER'S MAGAZINE, 36 BARCLAY ST., 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Benzinger Brothers, Edi- 
tors. Catholic. Fiction ranges from 300 to 5,000 
words in length; material may go as long as 100,000 
words. Material must be written with the aim of de- 
cisively furthering Catholic interests. 

CANADIAN MESSENGER OF THE SACRED 
HEART, 1075 RACHEL STREET, MONTREAL, 
QUEBEC, CANADA. Monthly. E. J. Devine, Edi- 
tor. Catholic. Inculcates Catholic dogma and doc- 
trines in articles and short stories of not over 2,500 
words. 

CATHOLIC EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, 1326 
QUINCY STREET, BROOKLAND, D. C. Month- 
ly. Thomas H. Shields, Editor. Educational articles 
presenting Catholic viewpoint are desired, as are up- 
to-date articles on current topics. 



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CATHOLIC SCHOOL JOURNAL, MILWAU- 
KEE, WIS. Monthly. Mary J. Desmond, Editor. 
Can use articles relating to ways and means for 
teachers in Roman Catholic schools to make their work 
more effective, successful and easier; uses humorous 
bits pertaining to students and to the general school 
atmosphere of Roman Catholic institutions; also relig- 
ious verse. Has department devoted to the health of 
the school and the like. This is a market for photo- 
graphs relating to matters and accomplishments of in- 
terest to Catholic schools. 

CATHOLIC TRIBUNE, DUBUQUE, IOWA. 
Semi-weekly. Nicholas E. Gonner, Editor. Uses 
stories, novelettes and photographs of Roman Catholic 
texture; wants articles of up-to-date interest on a 
variety of subjects, all newsy and of special interest to 
the Christian citizen. 

CATHOLIC WORLD, 120 WEST 60TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. John J. Burke, 
Editor. Short stories of about 5,000 words; some 
serials ; also articles with Roman Catholic leanings up- 
on a variety of subjects, such as education, biography, 
history, etc. 

CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, 810 BROADWAY, 
NASHVILLE, TENN. Thomas N. Ivey, Editor. 
Methodist. Uses photographs and material for family- 
page, boys' and girls' department, Christian life depart- 
ment, etc. Reports quickly on articles from 1,500 to 
2,000 words devoted to character uplift. 

CHRISTIAN ENDEAVOR WORLD, 31 
MOUNT VERNON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. 
Weekly. Amos R. Wells, Editor. Wants brief ac- 
counts and articles, with photographs, of interest to 
church-goers. Their wants run to stories, articles, 
poems, essays and such of about 3,500 words. This 
publication insists upon a high quality of submittals. 



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CHRISTIAN EVANGELIST, 2712 PINE ST., 
ST. LOUIS, MO. Weekly. B. A. Abbott, Editor. 
Stories impressing upon the reader the grandeur and 
the worth-whileness of a pure and holy life, though not 
necessarily goody-goody or theological, of about 1,000 
words, are in demand; also articles calculated to uplift 
a community or a body of readers in a general, relig- 
ious and social way. Especially desires photographs 
showing eminent personalities of the religious world. 

CHRISTIAN FAMILY, TECHNY, ILL. 
Monthly. Frederick M. Lynk, Editor. Catholic. 
Stories should have Catholic proclivities. Wants arti- 
cles featuring out-of-the-way things, countries, per- 
sons, inventions, etc., of approximately 2,000 to 2,500 
words, with a few illustrations. 

CHRISTIAN GUARDIAN, WESLEY BLDG., 
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. Weekly. 
William Briggs, Editor. Short stories of 2,500 words; 
a short serial now and then; also articles of religious, 
social or other topics, of sectarian or general interest. 

CHRISTIAN HERALD, 96 BIBLE HOUSE, 
NEW YORK. Weekly. Charles Grant Miller, Edi- 
tor. Is looking for engrossing, compelling material for 
young boys and girls; something that will grasp and 
maintain their interest by reason of its unusual nature. 
This material should come within 300 words and 
should embody an ethical example that does not intrude 
too strongly upon the reader's consciousness. Ac- 
counts and methods of success that inspire in the right 
direction are desired. 

CHRISTIAN REGISTERS BEACON STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. Weekly. Albert C. DierTenback, 
Editor. Features articles of 1,500 words revealing 
movements, tendencies, momentous ideas and great 
characters, all of which movements and personages de- 
scribed should preferably be national in scope and rec- 



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ognizable by the average individual and should prove 
that man progresses most effectively and commonly 
through a liberal and a Christian morality. In other 
words, the articles for this magazine must show the 
spiritual force that is back of all splendid national 
growths and events and persons of worth. 

CHRISTIAN STANDARD, NINTH AND CUT- 
TER STREETS, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Weekly. 
George P. Rutledge, Editor. Uses stories of an ethi- 
cal nature, religious or not; also original readings. 
Wants stories, verses and paragraphs of interest to the 
juvenile reader. 

CHRISTIAN WORK AND EVANGELIST, 70 
FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Weekly. Dr. 
Frederick Lynch, Editor. Wants religious articles of 
the usual type. 

CHURCHMAN, 381 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. Weekly. Rev. Charles K. Gilbert, Editor. 
Consistently Episcopal in all material purchased. Fea- 
tures articles of 1,000 to 1,500 words dealing only with 
problems and truths and tendencies of the Episcopal 
church that would appeal to Episcopal readers only. 
Will utilize photographs reflecting unusual or import- 
ant phases of church life. 

CONGREGATIONALIST AND CHRISTIAN 
WORLD, 14 BEACON STREET, BOSTON, 
MASS. Weekly. Rev. H. A. Bridgman, Editor. 
Uses juvenile stories with a quiet moral underlying the 
story interest; juvenile series; the ordinary adult story 
of general appeal and high moral tone together with 
religious articles, as well as informative and instruc- 
tive material for the woman's page and the sections 
devoted to home missionary, Congregationalist news 
items of churches and pastors, etc. Also uses short 
stories of people engaged in significant enterprises and 
reflecting the church-goer's phases of life in an enter- 
taining manner. 



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CONTINENT, 509 SOUTH WABASH AVE- 
NUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Nolan R. Best, 
Editor. Purchase 2,400-word stories; articles, 1,800 
to 2,400 words, pertaining to uplift work of religious 
or philanthropic character, and photographs showing 
the manner in which the world is moving forward with 
relation to temperance and the like. 

EPWORTH ERA, NASHVILLE, TENN. Week- 
ly. Fitzgerald S. Parker, Editor. Will consider 
stories, serials, articles and a few brief poems of the 
regular type containing helpful and suggestive hints 
and information for the young people of church clubs, 
societies, etc. 

EPWORTH HERALD, 740 RUSH STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Dan B. Brummitt, Edi- 
tor. This publication desires from 1,500 to 3,000 word 
stories ; can use at various intervals, serials of interest 
to 16 to 20-year-old Methodists who are interested in 
and taking part in various church activities. The 
moral intent in these stories should not be too notice- 
able. 

THE EXPOSITOR, 708 CAXTON BLDG, 
CLEVELAND, OHIO. Monthly. F. M. Barton, 
Editor. Uses the ordinary religious articles and 
stories with interesting though purposeful themes. 

FRONT RANK, 2710 PINE STREET, ST. 
LOUIS, MO. Weekly. Richard Heilbron and 
Cynthia Maus, Editors. A paper for Sunday-school 
goers featuring bright and clean short stories of 1,500 
to 3,000 words, also an occasional serial up to 40,000 
words. The usual moral intent may in the case of this 
magazine be more than usually perceptible. 

GOSPEL MESSENGER, 6 SOUTH STATE 
STREET, ELGIN, ILL. Weekly. D. I. Miller, 
Editor. Uses articles of a peculiar nature revealing 
how the teachings of Christ and the Christ nature it- 



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self are being manifested in various personages of pro- 
fessed Christianity; articles range from 200 to 500 
words. 

HERALD AND PRESBYTER, 422 ELM 
STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Weekly. F. C. 
Monfort, Editor. Will consider short stories, for 
church-goer readers, of the ordinary type. 

HOME DEPARTMENT MAGAZINE, 161 
EIGHTH AVENUE, NORTH, NASHVILLE, 
TENN. Quarterly. Hight C. Moore, Editor. An 
occasional market for interesting and helpful short 
stories. 

HOMILETIC REVIEW, 354-360 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. Specializes 
in articles relating to sociology, religion, theology and 
the like. This publication is largely devoted to matter 
of interest to preachers. 

JEWISH TRIBUNE, 716 CHAMBER OF COM- 
MERCE BLDG., PORTLAND, ORE. Weekly. 
David N. Mosessohn, Editor. Short stories wanted 
by this publication must be obviously Jewish in char- 
acter, as well as the articles, which must confine them- 
selves within 1,200 word limits. This is a market for 
humorous articles and anecdotes of a Jewish trend. 

LAMP, GARRISON, N. Y. Monthly. Paul 
James Francis, Editor. Roman Catholic. Articles 
desired by this publication range from 2,000 to 4,000 
words; uses some stories of this length. All material 
for this journal should feature conversions to the 
Catholic faith. 

LOOKOUT, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Weekly. 
James DeForest Murch, Editor. Uses considerable 
articles of 2,500 words devoted to the Sunday school, 
bible classes, etc.; uses stories of about 2,500 words 
with the religious element brought out; some serials of 



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about 2,500 words to each installment, installments run- 
ning to 25. 

MICHIGAN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, 16 
ELIZABETH STREET, DETROIT, MICH. Week- 
ly. Rev. James H. Potts, Editor. Wants several 
very short stories for general family reading ; conducts 
a children's page and can use some helpful readings 
for it. 

PRESBYTERIAN, WITHERSPOON BLDG., 
PHILA., PA. Weekly. David S. Kennedy, Editor. 
Short stories from 1,000 to 2,000 words, of religious 
contents desired; a few serials running up to 25,000 
words, as well as some juvenile stories and articles re- 
lating to home problems. 

PRESBYTERIAN BANNER, 334 FULTON 
BLDG., PITTSBURGH, PA. Weekly. Joseph T. 
Gibson, Editor. Uses a few short stories and articles 
of 1,000 to 3,000 words; also serials at extended in- 
tervals. 

QUEEN'S WORK, ST. LOUIS, MO. Monthly. 
Rev. Edward F. Garesche, Editor. Stories and arti- 
cles for this publication must feature circumstances 
and matters of especial interest to Catholics; the arti- 
cles may relate to problems, processes and routine 
events of the Catholic church. Photographs are used 
when they accompany articles. 

QUEEN'S GARDEN, WITHERSPOON BLDG., 
PHILA., PA. Weekly. John T. Faris, Editor. A 
magazine devoted to Sunday-school girls, from 12 to 
14 years of age. Stories and installments for serials, 
of not over 8 chapters, may range from 2,200 to 2,500 
words. General articles of from 400 to 700 words are 
desired. 

RELIGIOUS TELESCOPE, DAYTON, OHIO. 
Weekly. J. M. Phillippi, Editor. Considers short 



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stories and articles of high moral intent, material rang- 
ing up to 1,500 words. 

ROSARY MAGAZINE, 871 LEXINGTON AVE., 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Rev. Thomas M. Schwert- 
ner, Editor. Roman Catholic. In the market for 
short stories that will interest Roman Catholics as well 
as further the interests of the Catholic Church. Short 
story material may reach 2,500 words in length; arti- 
cles of 1,800 to 2,500 words are desired. Photographs 
for the illustration of articles would be acceptable. 

SIGNS OF THE TIMES, MOUNTAIN VIEW, 
CALIF. Weekly. A. O. Tait, Editor. An Adventist 
publication. Can use a limited number of short articles 
beneficial to this sect. 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL JOURNAL, CINCINNATI, 
OHIO. Monthly. J. T. McFarland, D.D., Editor. 
Features articles relating to religious education, and 
especially articles relating to efficient and effective 
methods utilized for promoting the success of the Sun- 
day-school and the Sunday-school training of the pupil. 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL MAGAZINE, NASHVILLE, 
TENN. Monthly. E. B. Chappell, D.D., Editor. 
Articles of from 800 to 1,800 words relating to relig- 
ious education, especially in the rural community, are 
desired. 

SUNDAY-SCHOOL TIMES, 103 1 WALNUT 
STREET, PHIL A., PA. Weekly. Charles G. Trum- 
bull, Editor. Stories, 2,000 to 4,500 words in length, 
impregnated with the spirit of the Christian Citizen, 
are especially in demand ; stories that inspire those who 
read this material to themselves to lead a life that is 
wholesome and worthy. This publication features arti- 
cles that will increase the efficiency of Sunday-school 
methods ; that will make each Sunday-school attendant 
a vigorous advocate of Christ and His church and will 



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unite all Sunday-school activities into one mold, all 
working together for the furtherance of the Christian 
and Sunday-school spirit. Uses verse and children's 
stories. 

THE SUNDAY-SCHOOL WORLD, 1816 
CHESTNUT STREET, PHIL A., PA. Monthly. 
James McConaughty, Editor. This publication fea- 
tures material of interest to Sunday-school workers; 
wants articles based on actual experience concerning 
the Sunday-schools in the rural districts that are con- 
ducted successfully and effectively. Also wishes arti- 
cles containing suggestions as to how awkward, weak, 
luke-warm Sunday-school methods may be replaced by 
those that construct a vigorous and effective Sunday- 
school organization. Serials may range, in install- 
ment lengths, from 300 to 1,500 words. 

TRUTH, 412 EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 
Monthly. Rev. William F. McGinnis, Editor. Roman 
Catholic. Articles must have as their chief aim the 
molding of the Catholic children in the Catholic 
faith. 

UNION SIGNAL, EVANSTON, ILL. Weekly. 
Julia F. Deane, Editor. Wants stories, 1,500 to 1,800 
words, featuring positive and constructive methods 
for the elimination of intemperance. 

WATCHMAN MAGAZINE, NASHVILLE, 
TENN. Monthly. L. A. Smith and A. W. Spalding, 
Editors. Seventh-Day Adventist. Uses articles relat- 
ing to this particular faith and to the political and 
social and home conditions as manifested by divine 
prophecy. 

THE WATCHWORD, OTTERBEIN PRESS, 
DAYTON, OHIO. Weekly. H. F. Shupe, Editor. 
A paper of interest to young Sunday-school-goers; 
desires articles of timely interest pertaining to inven- 



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tions and various scientific discoveries, travel, bi- 
ography and the like. Articles of a timely and up-to- 
date nature should be accompanied by photographs. 
Can use some serials of from 1,800 to 2,500 words to 
each chapter, chapters running from 8 to 12. 

WESLEYAN CHRISTIAN ADVOCATE, AT- 
LANTA, GA. Weekly. Dr. W. C. Lovett, Editor. 
Stories of the usual moral intent within 1,000 words; 
short verse and curt, humorous bits. 

THE YOUNG CHURCHMAN, 484 MILWAU- 
KEE STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Weekly. L. 
H. Moorehouse, Editor. In the market for well-ex- 
ecuted stories of an uplift nature, 2,000 to 2,500 words 
in length, adapted to the use of both boys and girls 
from 12 to 16 years; articles of 700 to 1,000 words. 

YOUNG CRUSADER, 1730 CHICAGO AVE., 
EVANSTON, ILL. Monthly. Miss Windsor Grow, 
Editor. Uses stories, serials and articles ; all material 
should be written with the aim to bring out clearly and 
forcibly, yet withal interestingly, the gross, evil effects 
of bad habits, such as smoking, intemperance, etc. All 
material for this publication, too, should place prohibi- 
tion in a desirable light and should endeavor to make 
all readers crusaders for the ends of prohibition. Con- 
ducting departments : mercy, social meetings, red letter 
days, medal contests, etc. And also uses propaganda 
material for campaigns against cigarette-smoking, in- 
temperance and the like. 

YOUNG FOLKS, 1522 ARCH STREET, 
PHILA., PA. Weekly. William L. Hunton, Ph.D., 
Editor. Stories for this magazine should come with- 
in 2,000 to 3,000 words; serials may go as long as 12 
chapters. Uses some boy's stories and has use for il- 
lustrated articles. 

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PHILA., PA. Weekly. Frank Otis Ert, Ph.D., 
Editor. Solicits short stories of the ordinary type, 
2,200 to 2,800 words in length ; especially desires illus- 
trated articles of 100 to 1,500 words. Uses serials up 
to 8 chapters; also uses pictures featuring topics and 
people and events of interest to church-goers and es- 
pecially to the juveniles of this class. 

YOUNG PEOPLE'S PAPER, 1816 CHESTNUT 
STREET, PHILA., PA. Weekly. James McCon- 
aughy, Editor. This publication designates itself as a 
Sunday-school paper founded to amuse and morally 
instruct young people of 12 to 20 years. Wants in- 
spirational, uplifting stories and serials, as well as in- 
formative articles pertaining to natural history, scien- 
tific accomplishments of all phases, history, biography 
and the like. Short stories should limit themselves to 
2,000 words, serials to 10,000 words. 

YOUTHS' WORLD, 1701 CHESTNUT 
STREET, PHILA., PA. Monthly. W. Edward 
Raffety, Editor. In the market for short adventure 
stories appealing to boys between the ages of 13 and 
16, as well as stories of the average type coming within 
2,000 to 2,500 words; serials 6 to 8 chapters, of 2,000 
to 2,500 words in each chapter; also articles confined 
to 1 ,000 words or less that will interest a wide-awake, 
lively and practical-minded boy, relating to inventions, 
nature, strange occurrences and the like, that will en- 
courage youths to know more about the world in which 
they live and the remarkable significance of various 
happenings. Material should be helpful and entertain- 
ing. Some terse, to-the-point editorial articles of 
from 100 to 300 words are especially in demand. 



CHAPTER VII 
EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS. 

AMERICAN PENMAN, 30 IRVING PLACE, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. A. N. Palmer, Editor. 
Wants 2,000-word articles on penmanship and com- 
mercial education. 

AMERICAN OPEN AIR SCHOOL JOURNAL, 
REAL ESTATE TRUST BLDG., PHILA., PA. 
Monthly. Walter W. Roach, Editor. Wants articles 
relating to the construction of open-air schools, teach- 
ing methods, etc. 

AMERICAN SCHOOL BOARD JOURNAL, 129 
MICHIGAN STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
Monthly. Wm. C. Bruce, Editor. Wants articles 
relating to the problems of school administration, 
school finance, school architecture, heating, ventila- 
tion, etc. Should be 1,000 to 5,000 words in length. 
Some humor and anecdotes used. Also a few photo- 
graphs of school buildings and so forth. 

CHAUTAUQUAN, CHAUTAUQUA, N. Y. 
Weekly. Wants entertainment material and news of 
lectures and lyceum affairs. 

EDUCATIONAL REVIEW, 102 PRINCE WIL- 
LIAM STREET, ST. JOHN, NEW BRUNS- 
WICK, CANADA. Monthly. Percy Gibson, Edi- 
tor. Wants articles on educational subjects. 

HIGH SCHOOL, 350 SANSOME STREET, 
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Monthly. Oscar E. 
Werner, Editor. Especially anxious for student con- 
tributions — articles on student activities and fiction in- 
teresting to young people. 



EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS 91 

HOME AND SCHOOL VISITOR, GREEN- 
FIELD, IND. Monthly. James N. Goble, Editor. 
Wants 1,000-word stories of interest to third and 
fourth grade children and 1,500-word stories interest- 
ing to fifth grade children. 

INDUSTRIAL ARTS, 129 MICHIGAN 
STREET, MILWAUKEE, WIS. Monthly. S. J. 
Vaughn, Editor. Wants articles of from 200 to 10,- 
000 words relating to domestic science, manual train- 
ing, vocational education, vocational guidance, and 
allied subjects. Also uses departmental items relating 
to the problems of workmen and machine shops. Also 
little items relating to pattern making, sewing, mil- 
linery, turning, forging, cooking, jewelry, basketry, 
pottery, leather goods, cement work, book-binding, etc. 

THE KINDERGARTEN AND FIRST GRADE, 
SPRINGFIELD, MASS. Monthly. May Murray 
and Mabel E. Osgood, Editors. Wants practical ar- 
ticles of interest to kindergarten and first grade teach- 
ers. 

KINDERGARTEN-PRIMARY MAGAZINE, 
MANISTEE, MICH. Monthly. J. H. Shults, Edi- 
tor. Wants articles of interest to teachers of kinder- 
garten and primary grades. Also verses suitable for 
recitation. 

MIND AND BODY, 72 WEST JOHNSON 
STREET, GERMANTOWN, PHILA., PA. Wil- 
liam A. Stecher, Editor. Wants articles by physical 
educators relating to the mind and body. 

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY 
PLANS, DANSVILLE, N. Y. Monthly. W. J. 
Beecher, Editor. Wants articles of 3,000 words or 
less, relating to teachers' work in the elementary 
schools. Especially when they treat of the new angle. 

OHIO TEACHER, COLUMBUS, OHIO. Month- 



92 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

ly. Henry G. Williams, Editor. Uses articles on all 
phases of education. 

PITMAN'S JOURNAL, 2 WEST 45TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Clarence A. 
Pitman, Editor. Wants articles on shorthand and 
typewriting. 

POPULAR EDUCATOR, 50 BROMFIELD, 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. Wants ar- 
ticles on all phases of education. 

PRIMARY EDUCATION, 50 BROMFIELD 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. Margaret 
A. Whiting, Editor. Uses articles interesting to school 
teachers. Should treat of new methods and devices. 

SCHOOL, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. 
Monthly. W. J. Dunlop, Editor. Wants educational 
articles from 1,500 to 2,000 words in length. 

SCHOOL ARTS MAGAZINE, 25 FOSTER 
STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. Monthly. Anna 
L. Cobb, Editor. Wants articles relating to drawing, 
manual training, and industrial arts. Uses photo- 
graphs if accompanied by brief articles. 

SCHOOL EDUCATION, 1401 UNIVERSITY 
AVENUE, S. E., MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. Month- 
ly. C. W. G. Hyde, Editor. Wants experience ar- 
ticles helpful to teachers and brief items for a primary 
department. 

SCHOOL NEWS OF NEW JERSEY. NEW 
EGYPT, N. J. Monthly. W. H. Conners, Editor. 
Wants all kinds of articles relating to teaching. 

SCHOOL WORLD, FARMINGTON, ME. 
Monthly. H. L. Goodwin, Editor. Uses brief ar- 
ticles of interest to educators from the kindergarten to 
the high school. 

SOUTHERN SCHOOL WORK, ALEXAN- 



EDUCATIONAL PUBLICATIONS 93 

DRIA, LA. Monthly. C. R. Reagan, Editor. 
Wants educational articles of every description. 

THE TEACHER, 161 EIGHTH AVENUE, 
NORTH, NASHVILLE, TENN. Monthly. E. C. 
Dargan, D. D., Editor. Wants all kinds of education- 
al articles. 

TEACHER AND HOME, 3536 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. John T. Nicholson, Edi- 
tor. Wants articles by experienced teachers relating 
to their work. 

TEACHERS' GAZETTE, MILFORD, N. Y. 
Monthly. John Wilcox Estate, Editor. Wants ar- 
ticles relating to educational methods for the grade 
and rural schools. 

WESTERN TEACHER, MILWAUKEE, WIS. 
Monthly. S. Y. Gillan, Editor. Wants short, prac- 
tical articles relating to school-room devices and very 
short stories from 600 to 1,800 words relative to 
school teachers. 

WORLD'S CHRONICLE, 542 SOUTH DEAR- 
BORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. C. 
A. Underwood, Editor. A journal for educators to 
read at home. Wants all kinds of articles to interpret 
and discuss current events. 



CHAPTER VIII 
WHERE TO SELL SONGS. 

Important — Practically every legitimate music 
publisher is willing to examine the manuscripts of new 
writers. Very few of them, however, will consider 
anything except a complete song, with both words and 
music. There are a fezv publishers who will consider a 
lyric without music. They are: M. Witmark & Sons, 
Jerome H. Remick, Leo Feist, Inc., Joseph W. Stern 
& Co. All of these publishers are located in New York 
City and are listed below. 

The aspiring lyric writer is advised to find some one 
to write music to his words, and the ambitious com- 
poser ought to find some one to supply words before 
his music is submitted for examination. 

Beware of the u song fakers/' however, who want 
you, to pay them to publish your work on a "royalty" 
basis and supply you with from fifty to five hundred 
copies of the first edition. Do not pay any one a single 
cent for publishing your song. All legitimate publish- 
ers will pay you for your work; you do not need to 
pay them. 

EMIL ASCHER, 1155 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Uses high-grade and semi-popular songs. 

WM.E. ASHMALL & COMPANY, 11 PAVONIA 
AVENUE, ARLINGTON, N. J. Organ music. 

H. BAUER MUSIC COMPANY, 135 EAST 
34TH STREET, NEW YORK CITY. Popular 
music. 

SAMUEL W. BEAZLEY, 808 DELAND AVE- 
NUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Gospel songs and lyrics. 

BIGLOW & MAIN CO., 156 FIFTH AVENUE, 



WHERE TO SELL SONGS 95 

NEW YORK. Gospel songs and gospel song book 
collections. 

BOOSEY & COMPANY, 9 EAST 17TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Semi-classical songs and 
ballads. 

BOSTON MUSIC COMPANY, 26 WEST 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. High-class and semi- 
high-class songs, ballads and juvenile songs. 

BREHM BROS., ERIE, PA. These people are 
not regular music publishers. They are music print- 
ers. They will publish your music for you at your 
own expense, and send you all of the copies printed 
and also the plates. They do not publish songs on 
royalties and do not buy songs. They are regular 
legitimate music printers. 

BROADWAY MUSIC CORPORATION, 145 
WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK. Popular 

songs. 

BUCKEYE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 997 
EAST RICH STREET, COLUMBUS, OHIO. 
Popular songs. 

CADILLAC MUSIC CO., 1416 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. High-class songs and music. 

CENTURY MUSIC COMPANY, 235 WEST 
40TH STREET, NEW YORK. High-class songs 
and ballads. 

THE JOHN H. CHURCH COMPANY, 109 
WEST 4 TH STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO. 
Secular and sacred music for the piano, organ and 
vocal use. 

PAXSON CHURCH & COMPANY, 1369 
BROADWAY, NEW YORK. High-class music. 



96 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

J. M. DALY, 665 WASHINGTON STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. High-grade music. 

C. H. DITSON COMPANY, 8 EAST 34TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. High-grade music. A 
few songs. 

OLIVER DITSON COMPANY, BOSTON, 
MASS. High-class songs and semi-high-class songs 
and ballards. Also juvenile songs in book form. 

CRAIG ELLIS & COMPANY, 145 NORTH 
CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Popular songs. 

E. O. EXCELL, LAKESIDE BLDG., CHICAGO, 
ILL. Gospel song poems, and complete gospel songs. 

LEO FEIST, INC., 235 WEST 40TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

CARL FISCHER, 6 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. High-class music. 

J. FISCHER & BROTHERS, 7 BIBLE HOUSE, 
NEW YORK. High-class music. 

CHARLES H. GABRIEL, 57 WASHINGTON 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Gospel songs. 

ADAM GEIBEL, 1020 ARCH STREET, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. Gospel songs. 

GILBERT AND FRIEDLAND,2 3 2 WEST 46TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

GLAD TIDINGS PUBLISHING CO., ROOM 
602, LAKESIDE BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. Gospel 
songs. 

HAMILTON S. GORDON, 145 WEST 46TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Semi-high-class songs and 
a few high-class songs. 



WHERE TO SELL SONGS 97 

H. W. GRAY COMPANY, 2 WEST 45TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Classical music. 

E. A. HACKETT, FT. WAYNE, IND. Gospel 
songs. 

HALL-MACK CO., 1018 ARCH STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Gospel songs. 

FRANK HARDING, 222 EAST 22ND STREET, 
NEW YORK. Here is another music printer. He 
is not a publisher, but simply prints music for song- 
writers. 

T. B. HARMS, 62 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW 
YORK. Sentimental popular songs. 

CHARLES K. HARRIS, 701 SEVENTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

HATCH MUSIC COMPANY, EIGHTH AND 
LOCUST STREETS, PHILA., PA. Popular songs. 

F. B. HAVILAND PUBLISHING CO., 1579 
BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

J. J. HOOD, 1024 ARCH STREET, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. Gospel songs. 

HOPE PUBLISHING CO., 150 MICHIGAN 
AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Gospel songs and songs 
and music. 

P. J. HOWLEY, 146 WEST 46TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Popular music. 

INDEPENDENT MUSIC PUBLISHING CO., 
850 SOUTH 23RD STREET, OMAHA, NEB. 
Ballads. 

WALTER JACOBS, 167 TREMONT STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. High-class songs. 

KENDIS, BROCKMAN MUSIC PUBLISHING 



98 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

CO., 145 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW YORK. 
Songs and words and music. 

GEORGE J. KOCH, 143 1 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Popular music. 

KONINSKY MUSIC CO., TROY, N. Y. Popular 
songs. 

F. J. LAWSON CO., 350 WEST 38TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Another music printer — not a pub- 
lisher. 

LORENZ PUBLISHING COMPANY, DAY- 
TON, OHIO. Sacred music. 

MACCALLA & CO, 249 DOCK STREET, 
PHILADELPHIA PA. Gospel songs. 

MIEGS PUBLISHING CO, 222 EAST OHIO 
STREET, INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Gospel songs. 

F. A. MILLS, 207 WEST 48TH STREET, NEW 
YORK. Popular songs. 

JOSEPH MORRIS, 145 WEST 45TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

THEODORE MORSE MUSIC CO, 143 WEST 
40TH STREET, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

NOVELLO & COMPANY, 21 EAST 17TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. High-class songs with 
music. 

ORPHEUS MUSIC CO., 301 WEST 57TH 
STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Uses musical 
comedies, librettos with music, for entire evening's 
performance or short enough for vaudeville, without 
lyric. 

PACE AND HANDY, BEALE STREET, 
MEMPHIS, TENN. Popular songs and music. 



WHERE TO SELL SONGS 99 

AL PIANTADOSI & COMPANY, 1531 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

WILLIAM A. POND, 18 WEST 37TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. All kinds of songs including sacred, 
secular, popular songs for duets, trios, and all kinds 
of songs with music. 

THEODORE PRESSER COMPANY, 1712 
CHESTNUT STREET, PHILA., PA. Educational 
piano composition with a few high-class and semi- 
high-class songs, ballads, and juvenile songs. 

JEROME H. REMICK & CO., 219 WEST 46TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

E. T. ROOTS & SONS, 1501 EAST 55TH 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Popular songs. 

HAROLD ROSSITER MUSIC COMPANY, 325 
WEST MADISON STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 
High-class, semi-high-class songs and ballads and also 
popular songs. 

WILL ROSSITER, 1581 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Popular songs. 

G. SCHIRMER COMPANY, 3 EAST 43RD 
STREET, NEW YORK. Ballads, high-class songs, 
semi-high-class juvenile, novelty and comic songs. 

THE ARTHUR P. SCHMIDT CO., 120 BOYLS- 
TON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. High-class 
songs, sacred songs and duets. 

PAUL SCHMITT, NICOLETT AND EIGHTH 
STREETS, MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. High-class 
music. 

J. F. SCHROEDER, 10 EAST 16TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Music for the piano and a few high- 
class songs. 



ioo HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

EDWARD SCHUBERTH & CO., n EAST 
22ND STREET, NEW YORK. High-class songs, 
ballads, juvenile novelty and comic songs. 

C. R. SCOVILLE, 2207 VAN BUREN STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Gospel songs. 

SHAPIRO, BERNSTEIN & COMPANY, 226 
WEST 47TH STREET, NEW YORK. Popular 
songs. 

SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA MUSIC CO., 332 
SOUTH BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Popular 
music. 

JOSEPH W. STERN & CO., 102 WEST 38TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Popular songs and semi- 
high-class ballads. 

SUCCESS MUSIC CO., 260 EUCLID AVENUE, 
AKRON, OHIO. Popular songs that are up-to-date. 

CLAYTON F. SUMMY CO., 64 EAST VAN 
BUREN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Ballads, high- 
class, semi-high-class and juvenile songs. 

ROBERT TELLER SONS & DORNER, 311 
WEST 43RD STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. These 
people are music printers and not publishers. They 
do not accept any song — they simply print music. 

C. W. THOMPSON COMPANY, A. & B. PARK 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. High-class songs and 
sacred songs. 

TULLAR-MEREDITH CO., 261 WEST 31ST. 
STREET, NEW YORK. Sunday-school songs and 
anthems. 

F. VAN DAM MUSIC CO., 203 WEST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Music printers, not pub- 
lishers. 



WHERE TO SELL SONGS 101 

ALBERT VON TILZER, 222 WEST 46TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

HARRY VON TILZER MUSIC COMPANY, 
222 WEST 46TH STREET, NEW YORK. Popular 
songs. 

WATTERSON, BERLIN AND SNYDER, 1571 
BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

H. C. WEASNER COMPANY, BUFFALO, 
N. Y. High-class songs and ballads. 

WELSH & WILSKY MUSIC COMPANY, 
PHILADELPHIA, PA. Popular music. 

WERBLOW & FISHER CO., STRAND THEA- 
TRE BLDG., NEW YORK. Popular songs. 

H. A. WEYMAN & SONS, 1010 CHESTNUT 
STREET, PHILA., PA. Popular songs. 

WILLIS MUSIC COMPANY, 137 WEST 4TH 
STREET, CINCINNATI, OHIO. All kinds of 
songs. 

M. WITMARK & SONS, 114 WEST 37TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. High-class songs, especially 
those of the shorter type which are suitable for 
encores. Semi-classical ballads, like "Love Me and 
The World is Mine" and all kinds of popular songs, 
including juvenile. 

THE B. F. WOOD MUSIC COMPANY, 246 
SUMMER STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Popular 
songs. 

YOUNG MUSIC CO., COLUMBUS, OHIO. 
Popular songs. 



CHAPTER IX 

NEWSPAPERS. 

Note — Almost without exception, the material used 
by newspapers all over the country is purchased from 
neivspaper syndicates and international news services 
of which the Associated Press is a standard and a lead- 
er. Syndicates and news services could not afford to 
sell material they gather to one or two newspapers at 
the rates that the newspapers pay per column. It is 
possible for the syndicates and news services, however, 
to do business and to thrive since each article and piece 
of news is featured simultaneously by a large number 
of newspapers. 

We are listing below only the leading newspapers 
throughout the country, for the reason that in these 
times of high wages and the fabulous prices demanded 
for news- print paper, it is a daily occurrence to hear 
of failures, consolidations, and discontinuances in the 
newspaper world. The policy of newspapers, too, is 
constantly shifting as the newspapers fall into new 
hands and conditions change locally; so that it is next 
to impossible to list accurately the present needs of a 
newspaper with any feeling of assurance that these 
needs will continue long enough to be of any practical 
value. It is urged upon the writer, therefore, that 
he get in touch with the leading newspapers about 
him, which papers reflect in certain portions of their 
pages news items of local conditions and occurrences. 
To write for a newspaper one should be right on the 
ground. So far as the beginner is concerned, oppor- 
tunity for newspaper writing is confined mostly to 
items of local importance : news items, human-interest 
stories, stories of new manufacturing enterprises, in- 
terviezvs with prominently local people, political inter- 
views, stories of historical grozvth of the community 



NEWSPAPERS 103 

and the like. We are listing below the leading news- 
papers of the country and are likewise mentioning 
their political status. When the newspaper has spe- 
cial needs or opportunities open to the new writers 
we mention them. 

In the following list of newspapers we have not at- 
tempted to give the names and addresses of all the 
neivspapers of the leading cities; it would be impossi- 
ble and useless for us to attempt to do so. We have 
merely endeavored to reproduce here representative 
papers of the various localities and sections of the 
United States and Canada. In some cases we have 
given two or three newspapers in each section or city, 
but such a step is actuated by the fact that all of them 
are fairly open and active markets for materials and 
we did not wish to omit anything of benefit to the 
reader of this book. It will be realized, of course, that 
the larger newspapers pay much higher rates than the 
small country and town newspapers possibly could 
hope to do. 

AGE HERALD, BIRMINGHAM, ALA. Demo- 
cratic. E. W. Barrett, Editor. 

ADVERTISER, MONTGOMERY, ALA. Demo- 
cratic. William T. Sheehan, Editor. 

ARIZONA REPUBLICAN, PHOENIX, ARIZ. 
Independent. J. W. Spear, Editor. 

AMERICAN, 326 WEST MADISON STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Democratic. W. A. Curley, Edi- 
tor. 

AMERICAN, BALTIMORE AND SOUTH 
STREETS, BALTIMORE, MD. Republican. 

ARGUS-LEADER, SIOUX FALLS, S. D. Re- 
publican. C. M. Day, Editor. 

ARKANSAS GAZETTE, LITTLE ROCK, ARK. 
Democratic. J. N. Heiskell, Editor. 



104 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

BEE, 17TH AND FARNAM STREETS, 
OMAHA, NEB. Republican. Victor Rosewater, 
Editor. As the name suggests, this newspaper uses 
short, dynamic bits of information, and articles that 
penetrate and sting as effectively as a bee. In material 
submitted, humor should figure largely. 

BLADE, TOLEDO, OHIO. Republican. Can 
use some exceptional material from outsiders of the 
regular syndicate type. 

BRIDGEPORT POST, 49 CANNON STREET, 
BRIDGEPORT, CONN. Independent. Clarence 
P. Beers, Editor. This paper is a good market for 
feature stories from the free-lance writer. 

BULLETIN, 767 MARKET STREET, SAN 
FRANCISCO, CALIF. Independent. Fremont 
Older, Editor. 

CAPITAL, 708 WEST WALNUT STREET, 
DES MOINES, IOWA. Republican. Lafayette 
Young, Editor. 

CAPITAL, TOPEKA, KANS. Republican. 
Harold T. Chase, Editor. This paper uses consider- 
able outside material for their feature pages, which 
includes short-stories, paragraphs of interest to wo- 
men, etc. 

CAPITAL NEWS, BOISE, IDAHO. Indepen- 
dent. Richard S. Sheridan, Editor. 

CALL AND POST, MONTGOMERY AND 
JESSIE STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 
Independent. R. R. Hiestand, Editor. 

CITIZEN, 34 NORTH 3RD STREET, COLUM- 
BUS, OHIO. E. E. Cook, Editor. 

CHRONICLE, CORNER KEARNY, GEARY 
AND MARKET STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO, 
CALIF. Independent. M. H. De Young, Editor. 



NEWSPAPERS 105 

COMMERCIAL APPEAL, 30 NORTH SEC- 
OND STREET, MEMPHIS, TENN. Democratic. 

CONSTITUTION, ATLANTA, GA. Democra- 
tic. Clark Howell, Editor. This is an open market 
for enlivening, tingling and lyrical verse. 

COURIER-JOURNAL, THIRD AVENUE AND 
GREEN STREET, LOUISVILLE, KY. Demo- 
cratic. Henry Watterson, Editor. 

COURANT, COURANT BLDG., HARTFORD, 
CONN. Republican. Charles H. Clark, Editor. 

DEMOCRAT AND CHRONICLE, 59 EAST 
MAIN STREET, ROCHESTER, NEW YORK. 
Republican. O. S. Adams, Editor. 

DISPATCH, FOURTH AND MINNESOTA 

STREETS, ST. PAUL, MINN. Independent. Fea- 
tures largely informative bits for the household worker 
and the person on the farm. 

EAGLE, WASHINGTON AND JOHNSON 
STREETS, BROOKLYN, N. Y. Democratic. This 
newspaper accepts suitable material of the syndicate 
type from outside writers. 

ENQUIRER, 617 VINE STREET, CINCIN- 
NATI, OHIO. Democratic. W. F. Wiley, Editor. 

ENQUIRER, 250 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, 
N. Y. Democratic. K. G. Rudolph, Editor. 

EXAMINER, 326 WEST MADISON STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Independent. Charles S. Stanton, 
Editor. 

EXAMINER, THIRD AND MARKET 
STREETS, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. Inde- 
pendent. 

EXAMINER, BROADWAY AND 11TH 
STREET, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Independent. 



106 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

FLORIDA TIMES-UNION, JACKSONVILLE, 
FLA. Democratic. 

GEORGIAN, 20 EAST ALABAMA STREET, 
ATLANTA, GA. Democratic. 

GLOBE, 236 WASHINGTON STREET, BOS- 
TON, MASS. Independent. T. C. DeFriez, Editor. 
Is in the market for "people" feature articles and 
serials. Whenever possible, material is to be accom- 
panied by suitable photographs. 

HERALD, 425 ELEVENTH STREET, WASH- 
INGTON, D. C. Independent. C. T. Brainerd, Edi- 
tor. 

HERALD, HERALD SQUARE, NEW YORK. 
Independent. Another market for timely and well- 
written material of the syndicate type. 

INQUIRER, 1 109 MARKET STREET, PHILA, 
PA. Republican. C. H. Heistis, Editor. Will con- 
sider feature articles of exceptional merit; must be 
accompanied by photographs. 

ITEM, 210 CAMP STREET, NEW ORLEANS, 
LA. Independent. J. M. Thompson, Editor. 

JOURNAL, 182 FOURTH STREET, MIL- 
WAUKEE, WIS. L. W. Nieman, Editor. 

JOURNAL, JOURNAL BLDG., PROVIDENCE, 
R. I. Independent. John R. Rathom, Editor. This 
journal is open for pertinent comments on timely sub- 
jects from outside contributors. 

JOURNAL, ALBUQUERQUE, N. MEX. Re- 
publican. L. M. Fox, Editor. 

JOURNAL, 47 FOURTH STREET, SOUTH, 
MINNEAPOLIS, MINN. H. V. Jones, Editor. 

JOURNAL, FORT AND WAYNE STREETS, 



NEWSPAPERS 107 

DETROIT, MICH. Republican. T. C. Greenwood, 
Editor. 

JOURNAL, FOURTH AND SHIPLEY 
STREETS, WILMINGTON, DEL. Republican. 
George Carter, Editor. 

JOURNAL-COURIER, TEMPLE AND CEN- 
TER STREETS, NEW HAVEN, CONN. In- 
dependent. Norris G. Osborn, Editor. 

KNICKERBOCKER PRESS, 18 BEAVER 
STREET, ALBANY, N. Y. L. J. Arnold, Editor. 

MIRROR, 64 HANOVER STREET, MAN- 
CHESTER, N. H. Republican. Arthur E. Clarke, 
Editor. 

NEWS, 801 COMMERCIAL STREET, 
DALLAS, TEX. Democratic. Uses considerable 
material of interest to those who are actively engaged 
in farming. 

NEWS AND OBSERVER, RALEIGH, N. C. 
Democratic. R. W. Haywood, Editor. 

NEWS, 215 MARKET STREET, NEWARK, 
N. J. Independent. E. W. Scudder, Editor. 

NEWS, LAFAYETTE BLVD. AND SECOND 
AVENUE, DETROIT, MICH. Albert G. Breton, 
Editor. In the market for photographs of up-to-date 
and entertaining happenings, events and the like. 

NEWS, 30 WEST WASHINGTON STREET, 
INDIANAPOLIS, IND. Independent. Louis How- 
land, Editor. 

NEWS, 15 FIFTH AVENUE, NORTH 
CHICAGO, ILL. Independent. Victor F. Lawson, 
Editor. A market for brief, humorous accounts and 
sketches ; some poems. 



108 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

NEWS, 2200 FOURTH AVENUE, BIRMING- 
HAM, ALA. Democratic. Frank P. Glass, Editor. 

NEVADA STATE JOURNAL, RENO, 
NEVADA. Independent. Clayton Campbell, Edi- 
tor. 

NORTH AMERICAN, BROAD AND SANSOM 
STREETS, PHILA., PA. Progressive Republican. 
E. A. Van Valkenburg, Editor. A market for short 
stories of interest to boys and girls ; a few love stories 
of the popular type. 

OBSERVER, CHARLOTTE, S. C. Democratic. 
Wade H. Harris, Editor. 

OKLAHOMAN, 502 NORTH BROADWAY, 
OKLAHOMA, OKLA. R. E. Stafford, Editor. 

OREGONIAN, OREGONIAN BLDG., PORT- 
LAND, ORE. Republican. Edgar B. Piper, Edi- 
tor. 

POST, 259 WASHINGTON STREET, BOS- 
TON, MASS. Democratic. Edwin A. Grozier, 
Editor. Runs weekly prize contests for the best short 
stories under 1,000 words. This newspaper offers 
considerable inducement to its readers to help shape 
the editorial policy of the newspaper and is continu- 
ously soliciting suggestions and comments from the 
outside. 

POST, 1544 CHAMPA STREET, DENVER, 
COLO. Independent. W. C. Shepard, Editor. 

POST-DISPATCH, 12TH AND OLIVE 
STREETS, ST. LOUIS, MO. Independent. Joseph 
Pulitzer, Jr., Editor. 

POST-INTELLIGENCER, FOURTH AND 
UNION STREETS, SEATTLE, WASH. Repub- 
lican. S. C. Bone, Editor. 



NEWSPAPERS 109 

PLAIN-DEALER, 529 SUPERIOR AVENUE, 
N. E., CLEVELAND, OHIO. 

PRESS, 222 SOUTH OLIVER AVENUE, 
PITTSBURGH, PA. Independent. O. S. Hersh- 
man, Editor. Timely and up-to-date photographs are 
desired. 

PRESS, 7TH AND CHESTNUT STREETS, 
PHILA., PA. Republican. Alden March, Editor. 
A market for news photographs and features. 

PRESS, MONROE STREET, GRAND RAPIDS, 
MICH. Independent E. W. Booth, Editor. 

REGISTER, 71 SOUTH LOCUST STREET, 
DES MOINES, IOWA. Republican. Harvey Ing- 
ham, Editor. 

REPUBLICAN, 381 MAIN STREET, SPRING- 
FIELD, MASS. Independent. Richard Hooker, 
Editor. Purchases considerable short-story material, 
articles, sketches, etc. 

SENTINEL, 93 MASON STREET, MIL- 
WAUKEE, WIS. E. G. Johnson, Editor. 

STAR, 18TH AND GRAND AVENUE, 
KANSAS CITY, MO. Independent. R. E. Stout, 
Editor. 

STAR, STAR BLDG., INDIANAPOLIS, IND. 
John C. Shaffer, Editor. 

STAR, 1101 PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. Independent. T. W. Noyes, 
Editor. This newspaper uses quite a few items of 
national scope, with perhaps a political tinge. It is 
right on the ground with our nation's capital and its 
material reflects that fact. 

SUN, 150 NASSAU STREET, NEW YORK. 
Independent. 



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SUN, BALTIMORE AND CHARLES 
STREETS, BALTIMORE, MD. Democratic. J. 
H. Adams, Editor. 

SUNDAY TELEGRAM, 12 MONUMENT 
SQUARE, PORTLAND, ME. Independent. George 
W. Norton, Editor. 

TIMES, 195 MAIN STREET, BUFFALO, N. Y. 
Democratic. Norman E. Mack, Editor. Purchases 
regular syndicate material from outside writers. 

TIMES, 8 SOUTH STOCKTON STREET, 
TRENTON, N. J. Independent. James Kerney, 
Editor. 

TIMES, THIRD AVENUE AND GREEN 
STREET, LOUISVILLE, KY. Democratic. W. 
B. Haldeman, Editor. 

TIMES, MUNSEY BLDG., WASHINGTON, 
D. C. Independent. Arthur Brisbane, Editor. 

TIMES, TIMES BLDG., LOS ANGELES, 
CALIF. Republican. Harrison Grey Otis, Editor. 

TIMES, TIMES SQUARE, NEW YORK. Demo- 
cratic. Uses considerable filler matter in the form of 
jingles, humorous paragraphs, anecdotes and poems. 

TIMES-DISPATCH, 10 SOUTH TENTH 
STREET, RICHMOND, VA. Democratic. C. E. 
Hasbrook, Editor. 

TIMES-PICAYUNE, NEW ORLEANS, LA. 
Democratic. D. D. Moore, Editor. 

TIMES-STAR, 6TH AND WALNUT 
STREETS, CINCINNATI, OHIO. Republican. 
Hulbert Taf t, Editor. In the market for brief, telling 
articles of an up-to-date nature; also photographs. 

TRAVELER, 171 TREMONT STREET, BOS- 



NEWSPAPERS in 

TON, MASS. Independent Republican. Robert 
Lincoln O'Brien, Editor. 

TRIBUNE, SALT LAKE CITY, UTAH. Re- 
publican. 

TRIBUNE, 154 NASSAU STREET, NEW 
YORK. Republican. O. M. Reid, Editor. In the 
market for material of the interview type properly il- 
lustrated or photographed. 

TRIBUNE, 7 SOUTH DEARBORN STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Republican. Robert R. Mc- 
Cormick and Joseph Medill Patterson, Editors. This 
newspaper purchases considerable material from out- 
side contributors of the ordinary syndicate type: fill- 
ers, verse, jingles, juvenile material, such as bright 
sayings of children, and paragraphs under the head- 
ing, "Real Love Stories." 

TRIBUNE, 13TH AND FRANKLIN STREETS, 
OAKLAND, CALIF. Republican. Joseph R. 
Knowland, Editor. 

TRIBUNE, 236 SOUTH BROADWAY, LOS 
ANGELES, CALIF. Independent. H. W. Brun- 
dige, Editor. 

WORLD, 53 PARK ROW, NEW YORK. In- 
dependent Democratic. Frank I. Cobb, Editor. 

WYOMING TRIBUNE, CHEYENNE, WYO. 
Republican. 



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LEADING CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS 

GLOBE, YONGE, MELINDA AND JORDAN 
STREETS, TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA. 
Liberal. 

HERALD, 7TH AVENUE AND FIRST 
STREET, CALGARY, ALTA., CANADA. Con- 
servative. J. H. Woods, Editor. 

MAIL, HALIFAX, NOVA SCOTIA, CANADA. 
Conservative. 

MANITOBA FREE PRESS, CARLTON 
STREET, WINNIPEG, CANADA. Liberal. 

STAR, SASKATOON, SASK., CANADA. In- 
dependent. G. Collingwood, Editor. 

STAR, 18 KING STREET, WEST, TORONTO. 
ONT., CANADA. Independent. 

STAR, 63 ST. JAMES STREET, MONTREAL, 
QUEBEC, CANADA. Independent. This news- 
paper issues a weekly edition as an agricultural ma- 
gazine of interest to Canadian farm homes. Timely 
news items and photographs are desired. 



CHAPTER X 
NEWSPAPER SYNDICATES. 

Note — The method of selling to syndicates is con- 
siderably different from that used in marketing photo- 
plays, stories, articles, etc., to magazines. Syndicates, 
because they are not so much in the public's attention, 
because they are not well known by the average free- 
lance writer, do not have submitted to them constantly 
manuscripts in such large quantities as do the more 
widely known publications and studios. For this rea- 
son and because the material used is largely of a 
journalistic character, they have found it best to get 
in touch with certain people who can send them work 
at stated intervals and under contract. The syndicate 
makes an excellent market for consistent writing when 
the author once can become affiliated satisfactorily with 
one, for such an association means that a certain 
amount of work will be taken regularly, every week 
or every month. 

The wants of syndicates are peculiar: almost without 
exception the material used must be up-to-date, timely 
and reflect present tendencies, problems, personages, 
events, strange happenings ; articles of experience, 
news of various character that does not appear" in the 
daily nezvspaper and that has a slightly longer life 
than the average news-item. Syndicates also are ex- 
cellent markets for photographs; they thrive on photo- 
graphs and on the peculiar type of material known as 
"filler" which consists of short verses, humorous anec- 
dotes, jokes, strange happenings, practical bits of in- 
formation, accounts of inventions and quaint historical 
events — in fact any themes coming within approxi- 
mately a thousand words that would benefit, interest, 
or instruct the general reader. As for fiction, the 
Syndicate desires stories of the serial type, each serial 



H4 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

comprising approximately one thousand words, or a 
little over. Also articles may follow national move- 
ments and tendencies, each instalment revealing some 
side of the question. Syndicative material appears 
simultaneously in a large number of newspapers all 
over the country, whereby the writer has the satisfac- 
tion of knowing that his material is read and seen by 
a vast number of persons. A large proportion of the 
newspapers, especially in their Sunday Editions, use 
material which is from syndicates, for the newspapers 
can depend upon a certain standard of newsy interest 
to be maintained by the syndicate, and can rely upon 
a certain quantity of readable matter being furnished 
them when desired. 

The following is a list of the leading Syndicates 
that are active markets. Nearly all of them use the 
kind of material listed above. When there is a varia- 
tion in the type of material wanted, and the require- 
ments are slightly different, suitable information is 
given. For the further enumeration of the various 
types of material used by the Syndicates, it might be 
said that a large number of them use paragraphs on 
art, religion, health hints, intervieivs with Movie 
Stars, sports news, cartoons, and many of them main- 
tain a department for women and the household, telling 
briefly and to the point certain methods of lightening 
the home work, recipes for various foods and deserts, 
how things for the household are made, articles on the 
garden and such. 

GEORGE MATTHEW ADAMS SERVICE, 
INC., 8 WEST 40TH STREET, NEW YORK. 
George Matthew Adams, Editor. 

THE AERONAUTIC PHOTO AND NEWS 
SERVICE 280 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK. 
G. Douglas Wardrop, Director. Weekly. 

AMERICAN WEEKLY, SIXTIETH STREET 



NEWSPAPER SYNDICATES 115 

AND BROADWAY, NEW YORK. C. M. Van 

Hamm, Editor, 

AMERICAN WEEKLY MAGAZINE, 2 
DUANE STREET, NEW YORK. Morrill God- 
dard, Editor. 

BECKWITH ROTOGRAVURE LIST, TRIB- 
UNE BLDG., NEW YORK. S. C. Beckwith, Edi- 
tor. 

BELL SYNDICATE, WORLD BLDG., NEW 
YORK. John M. Wheeler, Manager. 

CHICAGO TRIBUNE SYNDICATE, TRIB- 
UNE BLDG., CHICAGO. 

FARMERS' MAGAZINE, NASHVILLE, 
TENN. Monthly. This publication accompanies 
the various rural newspapers of the South and the 
interest and information they contain should be 
directed accordingly. 

FICTION MAGAZINE, MARQUETTE BLDG, 
CHICAGO, ILL. 

ILLUSTRATED SUNDAY MAGAZINE, 250 
FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 

INQUIRER SYNDICATE, 1125 MARKET 
STREET, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

INTERNATIONAL FEATURE SERVICE, 729 
SEVENTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. This Syndi- 
cate uses a large number of the well-known "Feature" 
articles, sketching entertainingly tendencies of some re- 
cent movement, some widely heralded occurrence or 
event, a prominent personage, and the like. Many 
of the syndicates listed herein are glad to consider in- 
terviews, chatty, revealing and to-the-point,with prom- 
inent people now in the public gaze, and accompanied 
by suitable photographs. 



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KABLE BROTHERS COMPANY, MOUNT 
MORRIS, ILL. Robert Toole, Editor. This Syndi- 
cate specializes in stories on fraternalism. Materials 
should fall within a 2,500-word limit. 

McCLURE NEWSPAPER SYNDICATE, 45 
WEST 34TH STREET, NEW YORK. Much of 
the material used by this syndicate is that which has 
already appeared in magazines or book form, the 
right to syndicate publication of which has been pur- 
chased. 

MONTHLY MAGAZINE SECTION, ASSO- 
CIATED PUBLISHERS CO., PROVIDENT 
BANK BLDG., CINCINNATI, O. 

NEWSPAPER ENTERPRISE ASSOCIATION, 
PRESS BLDG., CLEVELAND, O. 

NEWSPAPER FEATURE SERVICE, 37 WEST 
39TH STREET, NEW YORK. This syndicate spe- 
cializes in photographs of human interest, attempting 
in its features to reflect lively, bizarre and very un- 
usual sides of human life and human activities. A 
condition of acceptance is that this feature material 
be taken from actual life, people and occurrences, for 
human-interest copy of this nature has a decided fas- 
cination for the average newspaper reader ; it takes him 
into a new world and it lifts him, as it were, away 
from the humdrum and the customary. 

NORTH AMERICAN SYNDICATE, NORTH 
AMERICAN BLDG., PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

PHOTODRAMA SYNDICATE SERVICE, 27 
WEST 35TH STREET, NEW YORK. 

PUBLIC LEDGER SYNDICATE. INDEPEN- 
DENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. 

JOSEPH P. SCHILLER SYNDICATE, 557 
BOOK BLDG., DETROIT, MICH. A. J. Niepper, 



NEWSPAPER SYNDICATES 117 

Editor. This syndicate features articles of interest 
to motorists; material written for it must give ex- 
periences of motorists, descriptions of how they over- 
came obstacles or solved vexing problems and situa- 
tions into which motorists may fall; also bits relating 
to conservation of tires, fuel, and the like. It also is 
a market for fiction, news items and experiences of 
travel. It not only uses material of interest to the 
automobile owner, but may include any of the interest- 
ing motor-driven vehicles, such as the motorboat, aero- 
plane and the like. 

SOUTHWEST MAGAZINE, FORT WORTH, 
TEXAS. Monthly. 

UNITED STATES NEWSPAPER MAGA- 
ZINE, PULITZER BLDG., NEW YORK. Weekly. 
Frank A. Selah, Editor. 

WHEELER SYNDICATE, 373 FOURTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. L. M. Bell, Editor. 

THE WORLD COLOR PRINTING CO., 714 
LUCAS AVENUE, ST. LOUIS, MO. R. S. Grable, 
Manager. This syndicate deals largely in printed 
comics; it distributes out the Bingville Bugle, fiction 
page, fashion page and has sections of interest to chil- 
dren and to women. 

WORLD SYNDICATE, PULITZER BLDG., 
NEW YORK. W. H. Cosgrove, Editor. Is in the 
market for only second serial rights. 

Note — In addition to what already has been said 
at the head of this section, we might add that it would 
be wise for the prospective dealer with syndicates to get 
in touch with several of them in advance of actually 
submitting work, largely as a means of finding out 
exact present needs and the prospects of writing and 
selling work at regular intervals. If you have some 
ideas you think woidd interest one or more of these 



n8 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

syndicates, write to them and sketch briefly just what 
you have, then doubtless you can come to some ar- 
rangement with them for completing your ideas. 
There is practically no type of work that is not con- 
tained in the matetials used by the leading syndicates. 
Many newspapers have sections and departments of 
interest to every member of the family and bearing 
on the multitudinous phases of our daily life. There 
may be a puzzle page for the tot and a page devoted 
to the theatre. There is hardly anything of a strik- 
ing and newsy nature that might interest a large num- 
ber of readers or instruct and help some with 
their daily tasks, but what is constantly being used by 
syndicates. 



CHAPTER XI 
SPORTING AND ALLIED PUBLICATIONS. 

AIR TRAVEL, 280 MADISON AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. Robert Everett,. Editor. Uses 
articles and fiction dealing with aviation if not over 
5,000 words in length. Also uses jokes, verse and 
photographs. Adventurous aerial fiction preferred. 

ALL OUTDOORS, 145 WEST 36TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. L. M. Hutchins, Editor. 
Uses articles and photographs dealing with all outdoor 
subjects. 

AMERICAN BEAGLE, 639 WEST FEDERAL 
STREET, YOUNGSTOWN, OHIO. Monthly. J. 
A. White, Editor. Uses all kinds of articles and 
photographs relating to all kinds of hunting dogs. 
Also uses hunting articles. 

AMERICAN LAWN TENNIS, 120 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK. S. Wallace Merrihew, Editor. 
Uses articles, humor, verse, anecdotes and photographs 
relating to lawn tennis. 

ARMS AND THE MAN, 1502 H STREET, N. 
W., WASHINGTON, D. C. Weekly. James A. 
Drain, Editor. Very brief short stories relating to 
hunting and outdoor adventures. 

BASEBALL MAGAZINE, 70 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. F. C. Lane, Editor. Uses 
articles of from 2,000 to 3,000 words; also verse, 
humor, anecdotes, and photographs relating to base- 
ball subjects. 

BIRD LORE, 29 WEST 32ND STREET, NEW 
YORK. Bi-monthly. Frank M. Chapman, Editor. 



120 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

Uses articles of from 1,500 to 2,000 words relating to 
all kinds of birds and bird life. 

CAT REVIEW, 196 CENTRE STREET, 
ORANGE, N. J. Monthly. Jennie Rose Kroeh and 
Laura Zehring Dosch, Editors. Uses articles of from 
300 to 1,000 words and photographs relative to prize 
cats. 

COUNTRY LIFE, GARDEN CITY, L. L, N. Y. 
Monthly. Henry H. Saylor, Editor. This magazine 
deals with three subjects: Nature, sports, and build- 
ings in the country. Uses all kinds of manuscripts — 
if illustrated — relating to these subjects, if from 3,000 
to 4,000 words in length. Especially anxious to get 
original illustrations of sports and nature. 

DOG FANCIER, BATTLE CREEK, MICH. 
Monthly. Eugene Glass, Editor. Uses all kinds of 
articles relating to dogs. 

FIELD AND STREAM, 456 FOURTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. Hy S. Watson, 
Editor. Wants outdoor stories of every description, 
if from 3,000 to 3,500 words, preferably illustrated. 

FOREST AND STREAM, 9 EAST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. William 
Bruette, Editor. Uses articles on hunting, camping, 
fishing, woodcraft and allied subjects, providing they 
contain practical and specific information and are not 
over 2,500 words in length. Photographs wanted. 

GAME BREEDER, 150 NASSAU STREET, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Dwight W. Harding, 
Editor. Uses articles and photographs about game 
and fish breeding, shooting and fishing syndicates; 
also photographs relative to these subjects. 

GOLFERS' MAGAZINE, 1355 MONADNOCK 
BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. C. W. Higgins, 
Editor. Uses human-interest stories, verse, anecdotes, 



SPORTING AND ALLIED PUBLICATIONS 121 

photographs, and articles of national interest and re- 
lating to golf. 

THE HORSE WORLD, 1028-30 MARINE 
BANK BLDG., BUFFALO, N. Y. Weekly. Henry 
L. Allen, Editor. Uses articles of interest to readers 
and owners of trotters, pacers, ponies and pure-bred 
live-stock. 

HUNTER-TRADER-TRAPPER, COLUMBUS, 
OHIO. Monthly. Otto Kuechler, Editor. Uses 
articles of from 500 to 1,000 words relating to hunt- 
ing and trapping, especially if actual experiences. 

MOTOR, 119 WEST 40TH STREET, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. Alexander Johnston. Editor. 
Uses illustrated articles of approximately 3,000 words 
dealing with subjects of interest to the motorist. 

MOTOR AGE, 910 SOUTH MICHIGAN AVE- 
NUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. David Beecroft, 
Editor. Uses 1 articles of not over 500 words and 
some stories not over 2,500 words relating to all phases 
of motoring. 

MOTOR BOAT, 1133 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Semi-monthly. William B. Rogers, Jr., 
Editor. Uses practical articles and wants photographs 
relating to motor boats and to all phases of motor- 
boating. 

MOTORCYCLING AND BICYCLING, 538 
SOUTH CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. 
Weekly. T. J. Sullivan, Editor. Wants short ar- 
ticles about motorcycles and bicycles, written to appeal 
to the laymen. Also wants photographs to be used as 
suggestions to dealers in bicycles and motorcycles — 
to show them how to build up business. 

MOTORIST, 206 BEE BLDG., OMAHA, NEB. 
Monthly. L. A. Higgins, Editor. Wants stories of 



122 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

touring if illustrated. Also technical articles and 
items of interest to automobile dealers. 

MOTOR LIFE, 239 WEST 39TH STREET, 
.NEW YORK. Monthly. George W. Sutton, Jr., 
Editor. Uses articles, humor, anecdotes and verse re- 
lating to all phases of motoring, touring, aviation, 
etc. 

NATIONAL SPORTSMAN, 75 FEDERAL 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. Dixie 
Carroll, Editor. Wants hunting and fishing stories 
of 1,000 words. Also photographs of woodlands, 
camp life and mountain stream scenes. 

OUTING MAGAZINE, 141 WEST 36TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Albert Britt, 
Editor. Wants articles dealing with hunting or fish- 
ing or anything relating to the outdoors in any locality. 
Wants stories of about 2,000 words in which humor 
and adventure are exploited. Fiction should be 
genuine and should appeal to the lovers of the out- 
doors. Photographs of interest to sportsmen wanted. 

PACIFIC MOTOR BOAT, 19 COLMAN DOCK, 
SEATTLE, WASH. Monthly. Daniel L. Pratt, 
Editor. Wants technical articles relating to internal 
combustion engines and their operation, navigation, 
boat-design and construction. Also humorous werse 
and anecdotes relating to motor boats and yachting. 
Photographs accompanied by brief articles are wanted. 

POWER BOATING, PENTON BLDG., CLEVE- 
LAND, OHIO. Monthly. Robert E. Power, Edi- 
tor. Wants articles relating to power boat opera- 
tions; gas engine design, construction and equipment; 
and photographs relating to power boats. 

ROD AND GUN IN CANADA, 373 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. W. J. Tay- 
lor, Editor. Wants Canadian stories of outdoor life 



SPORTING AND ALLIED PUBLICATIONS 123 

dealing with hunting, fishing, etc. All material should 
have a Canadian setting. Occasionally uses three- 
or four-part serials. Articles relating to the outdoors 
wanted. 

RUDDER, 1 HUDSON STREET, NEW YORK. 
Monthly. Arthur F. Aldridge, Editor. Uses ar- 
ticles relating to yachting, motor-boating, etc. 

SCIENTIFIC MECHANICS, 119 WEST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. C. F. Chap- 
man, Editor. Wants articles relating to boating, fly- 
ing, etc. 

SPORTING GOODS DEALER, TENTH AND 
OLIVE STREETS, ST. LOUIS, MO. Monthly. 
L. M. Davis, Editor. Wants articles and short para- 
graphs interesting to dealers in sporting goods, athletic 
supplies, etc. 

SPORTS AFIELD, 542 SOUTH DEARBORN 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. Claude 
King, Editor. Uses two or three six to twelve-part 
serials every year ; twelve to twenty- four articles year- 
ly ; and good verse, humor and anecdotes every month. 
Material should appeal to lovers of the outdoors. 

YACHTING, 141 WEST 36TH STREET, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. William Atkin, Editor. Wants 
short stories and serials dealing with the sea and sail- 
ing. Also articles relating to boats together with 
photographs of subjects relating to the sea. 



CHAPTER XII 
MARKETS FOR HUMOR. 

BROWNING'S MAGAZINE, 16 COOPER 
SQUARE, NEW YORK. Monthly. C. M. Fair- 
banks, Editor. Uses bright jokes of interest to boys. 

CARTOON'S MAGAZINE, 6 NORTH MICHI- 
GAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. T. 
C. O'Donnell, Editor. Light verse and humorous 
miscellany; also whimsical essays and sketches. 

CENTURY MAGAZINE, 353 FOURTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. T. R. Smith, 
Managing Editor. Short sketches and fantastic ar- 
ticles for department entitled "In Lighter Vein." 

CLUB-FELLOW AND WASHINGTON MIR- 
ROR, 1 MADISON AVE., NEW YORK. Weekly. 
Frank D. Mullen, Editor. Uses clever stories from 
1,500 to 2,000 words and some verse and anecdotes. 

COLLIER'S WEEKLY, 416 WEST 13TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Weekly. See Standard 
Magazines. 

COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, INDEPENDENCE 
SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Weekly. See 
Standard Magazines. 

EVERYBODY'S MAGAZINE, SPRING AND 
MACDOUGAL STREETS, NEW YORK. Monthly. 
See Standard Magazines. 

FILM FUN, 225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. See Photoplay Magazines. 

HARPER'S MAGAZINE, FRANKLIN 

SQUARE, NEW YORK. Monthly. See Standard 
Magazines. 



MARKETS FOR HUMOR 125 

JUDGE, 225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 
Weekly. Perriton Maxwell. Editor. Uses short 
humorous stories of 500 to 1,500 words. Also bright, 
whimsical verse, jingles, humor, and anecdotes. 

LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, INDEPEN- 
DENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Month- 
ly. Edward W. Bok, Editor. See Women's and 
Household Periodicals. 

LIFE, 17 WEST 3 1 ST STREET, NEW YORK. 
Weekly. Tom L. Masson, Editor. Uses short hu- 
morous prose under 400 words. Especially wants 
satirical material. Also short anecdotes. 

MEDICAL PICKWICK, 92 WILLIAMS 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Julian W. 
Brandeis, M. D., Editor. Short humorous anecdotes 
of doctors and their experiences, and especially jokes 
on the profession. 

THE PEOPLE'S HOME JOURNAL, 76 LA- 
FAYETTE STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. 
See Women's and Household Periodicals. 

SATURDAY EVENING POST, INDEPEN- 
DENCE SQUARE, PHILADELPHIA, PA. Week- 
ly. See Standard Magazines. 

THE SMART SET, 461 EIGHTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. See Standard Magazines. 

TOWN TOPICS, 2 WEST 45TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Weekly. See Standard Magazines. 

VANITY FAIR, 449 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. See Women's and Household 
Periodicals. 

WOMAN'S HOME COMPANION, 381 
FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK. See Women's and 
Household Periodicals. 



CHAPTER XIII 
MARKETS FOR PHOTOGRAPHS. 

ABEL'S PHOTOGRAPHIC WEEKLY, CLEVE- 
LAND, OHIO. Weekly. T. C. Abel, Editor. Uses 
portrait photographs and professional articles on 
photography. 

AMERICAN AGRICULTURIST. See Agricul- 
tural and Allied Periodicals. 

AMERICAN ART NEWS, 15 EAST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Weekly. James B. Town- 
send, Editor. Uses newsy photographs of statues, pic- 
tures, art-museums, artists, etc. 

AMERICAN BOY, DETROIT, MICH. See 
Juvenile Publications. 

AMERICAN FARMING. See Agricultural and 
Allied Periodicals. 

THE AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF ART, 1741 
NEW YORK AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. 
Monthly. Leila Mechlin, Editor. Uses photographs 
of works of art and articles on photography. 

AMERICAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 210 NORTH 
13TH STREET, PHILA., PA. Monthly. Frank 
R. Fraprie, Editor. Uses practical articles on photog- 
raphy and holds photographic competitions monthly. 

AMERICAN SHEEP BREEDER AND WOOL 
GROWER, 817 EXCHANGE STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. W. W. Burch, Editor. 
Uses photographs of sheep. 

ANSCO COMPANY, BRINGHAMTON, N. Y. 
Uses photographs made on their own Ansco Film or 



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Hammer dry plates and on their Cyko paper; these 
are for advertising purposes. 

ARCHITECTURAL RECORD, 1 1 EAST 24TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Michael A. 
Mikkelsen, Editor. Wants photographs of landcape 
architecture, sculpture, mural decorations, etc. Pays 
liberal rates but demands high-class material. 

THE ART WORLD AND ARTS AND DECO- 
RATION, 470 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. 
Monthly. A C. Gaylor, Manager. Wants photo- 
graphs of interiors, painting and fine arts, providing 
they are accompanied by reading matter of from 1,000 
to 2,000 words. 

BAIN NEWS SERVICE, 80 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. George Grantham Bain, Editor. 
Wants photographs of all kinds for cover designs, 
post-cards, advertising purposes, etc. Are especially 
anxious to get news events with portraits of promi- 
nent men and women. 

BAUSCH & LOMB OPTICAL COMPANY, 
ROCHESTER, N. Y. Makers of high-grade lenses 
for cameras. They use photographs for advertising 
purposes providing the photographs are done with 
Bausch & Lomb lenses. 

BURKE AND JAMES, INC., 240 EAST ON- 
TARIO STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. These people 
make photographic supplies. They will buy unusual 
photographs made from their supplies. 

BULLETIN OF PHOTOGRAPHY, 210 NORTH 
13TH STREET, PHILA., PA. Weekly. Frank 
V. Chambers, Editor. Wants photographs and ar- 
ticles on photography from professionals. 

CAMERA, 212 NORTH 13TH STREET, 
PHILA, PA. Monthly. Frank V. Chambers, Edi- 
tor. Uses artistic photographs and practical articles 



128 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

on photography. Generally has monthly prize con- 
tests. 

CAMPBELL ART COMPANY, ELIZABETH, 
N. J. Will consider photographs for postcards. 

CELEBRITY ART COMPANY, 36 COLUMBUS 
AVENUE, BOSTON, MASS. Wants snappy fig- 
ures of girls and girls' heads for postcard calendars. 

CEMENT ERA, 538 SOUTH DEARBORN 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. E. S. Han- 
son, Editor. Wants photographs of construction 
work. 

ERNEST D. CHASE, 5^ ASHBURTON 
PLACE, BOSTON, MASS. Uses interesting photo- 
graphs for postcards. 

COLLIER'S WEEKLY, ART DEPARTMENT, 
416 WEST 13TH STREET, NEW YORK. See 
Standard Magazines. 

COUNTRY GENTLEMAN, PHILADELPHIA, 
PA. See Agricultural and Allied Periodicals. 

DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 214 EAST 
23RD STREET, NEW YORK. Wants photographs 
of landscapes for calendars. 

EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY, ROCHES- 
TER, N. Y. Largest makers of cameras and camera 
supplies in the world. Always anxious to purchase 
pictures for advertising purpose if they are made 
with their cameras. Hold many prize contests. See 
requirements of their magazine, Kodakery. 

ELWOOD MYERS COMPANY, SPRING- 
FIELD, OHIO. Wants photographs of children and 
animals for calendars and advertising purposes. 

FARM AND HOME, SPRINGFIELD, MASS. 
Ste Agricultural and Allied Periodicals. 



MARKET FOR PHOTOGRAPHS 129 

FARM JOURNAL, WASHINGTON SQUARE, 
PHILA., PA. See Agricultural and Allied Periodi- 
cals. 

FARM LIFE, SPENCER, IND. See Agricul- 
tural and Allied Periodicals. 

GARDEN MAGAZINE, GARDEN CITY, L. I., 
N. Y. See Agricultural and Allied Periodicals. 

GIBSON ART COMPANY, CINCINNATI, 
OHIO. Wants photographs for post-cards and calen- 
dars. 

GRIT, WILLIAMSPORT, PA. See Standard 
Magazines. < 

HOLLAND'S MAGAZINE, DALLAS, TEXAS. 
See Standard Magazines. 

HOUSE & GARDEN, 31 EAST 17TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. See Agricultural Publications. 

ILLUSTRATED REVIEW, ATASCADERO, 
CALIF. See Standard Magazines. 

ILLUSTRATED WORLD, 58TH STREET & 
DREXEL AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. See Stand- 
and Magazines. 

INTERNATIONAL STUDIO, 120 WEST 32ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. See Standard Magazines. 

KERAMIC STUDIO, SYRACUSE, N. Y. See 
Art Magazines. 

KODAKERY, EASTMAN KODAK COM- 
PANY, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Monthly A. H. 
Harscher, Editor. Often holds widely-advertised 
Kodak Advertising contests. Wants pictorial com- 
positions, pictures of action, and story-telling pictures. 

LADIES' HOME JOURNAL, INDEPEN- 



130 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

DENCE SQUARE, PHILA., PA. See Women's 
and Household Periodicals. 

LESLIE'S WEEKLY, 255 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. See Standard Magazines. 

LITERARY DIGEST, 44 EAST 23RD STREET, 
NEW YORK. See Standard Magazines. 

METROPOLITAN MAGAZINE, 432 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. See Standard Magazines. 

E. L. C. MORSE, 7650 SAGINAW AVENUE, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Wants all kinds of photographs 
of men and women doing all kinds of interesting 
things in the country or city. 

NATIONAL MAGAZINE, BOSTON, MASS. 
Monthly. Joe Mitchell Chappie, Editor. Anxious 
to get photographs of current events, if accompanied 
by description. 

NATIONAL SPORTSMAN, 75 FEDERAL 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. See Sporting and 
Allied Publications. 

NEBRASKA FARM JOURNAL, 203 FARNAM 
BLDG., OMAHA, NEB. Semi-monthly. A. G. 
Kittell, Editor. Wants good farm pictures. 

OUTLOOK, 287 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. See Standard Magazines. 

OUTING MAGAZINE, 141 EAST 36TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. See Standard Magazines. 

PHOTO NEWS SERVICE, 130 WEST 52ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. Uses photographs for post- 
cards. 

POPULAR MECHANICS MAGAZINE, 6 
NORTH MICHIGAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. 
See Standard Magazines. 



MARKET FOR PHOTOGRAPHS 131 

POPULAR SCIENCE MONTHLY, 225 WEST 
39TH STREET, NEW YORK. See Standard 
Magazines. 

PHOTO CRAFT, ANN ARBOR, MICH. Wants 
articles and stories on the art of picture making. 

PHOTO ERA, 383 BOYLSTON STREET, BOS- 
TON, MASS. Monthly. Wilfred A. French, Edi- 
tor. W^ants practical articles by amateur and profes- 
sional photographers on any branch of photography. 
Also uses photographs of interest to amateur and pro- 
fessional photographers. 

PHOTO-GRAPHIC ART, 122 EAST 17TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Bi-monthly. Edward R. 
Dickson, Editor. Wants photographs of pictorial 
value and for covers. 

THE PHOTO-MINIATURE, 103 PARK AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. John A. Tennant, 
Editor. Wants monographs of 10,000 to 15,000 
words relating to photographic work. These articles 
must be practical, interesting and based upon actual ex- 
periences. 

PRESS ILLUSTRATING SERVICE, 142 
WEST 23RD STREET, NEW YORK. Wants 
photographs which can be used as features for news- 
papers and advertising purposes. 

SATURDAY BLADE, 500 DEARBORN 
STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Merton 
Moore Taylor, Editor. Wants photographs of odd 
and out-of-the-ordinary things. 

E. A. STROUT, 47 WEST 34TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. Anxious to get photographs of farm 
scenes for advertising purposes. 

SUCCESSFUL FARMING, DES MOINES, 
IOWA. See Agricultural and Allied Periodicals. 



132 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

SUNSET MAGAZINE, SAN FRANCISCO, 
CALIF. See Standard Magazines. 

SYSTEM, WABASH AND MADISON 
STREETS, CHICAGO, ILL. See Standard Maga- 
zines. 

THOMPSON ART COMPANY, 155 BRAC- 
KETT STREET, PORTLAND, ME. Wants nature 
views without figures, also pictures of the sea. 

TRAVEL, 31 EAST 17TH STREET, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. Katherine M. Birdsall, Editor. 
Will use photographs which are accompanied by ar- 
ticles of accomplishment from 3,500 to 6,000 words 
in length. 

UNDERWOOD & UNDERWOOD, 417 FIFTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Uses photographs of cur- 
rent events of national and international interest and 
also photographs of prominent people. 

WOODWARD & TIERNAN PRINTING COM- 
PANY, ST. LOUIS, MO. Wants photographs of 
children, animals, ladies, etc. 

WORLD'S WORK, GARDEN CITY, L. I., N. Y. 
See Standard Magazines. 



CHAPTER XIV 
PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINES. 

THE CINEMA NEWS, ROOM 1006, TIMES 
BLDG., NE;W YORK. Monthly. Max Endicoff, 
Editor. Uses fiction of not over 1,000 words, dealing 
with photoplays and producers; some articles of the 
same character if not more than 1,000 words in length. 
Humorous photoplay anecdotes wanted also. 

DRAMATIC MIRROR OF MOTION PICTURE 
AND THE STAGE, NEW YORK. Weekly. Louis 
R. Reed, Editor. Sometimes uses special articles 
along theatrical lines. 

EXHIBITORS' HERALD, 203 SOUTH DEAR- 
BORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Mar- 
tin J. Quigley, Editor. Special articles from 1,000 
to 3,000 words dealing with motion picture business. 
Only strikingly original material wanted. 

FILM FUN, 225 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. Jessie Niles Burness, Editor. 
Uses short, humorous stories and sketches and good 
jokes, together with a little verse. Stories should not 
be over 1,200 words in length; the shorter the better. 
All material must relate to motion pictures or the peo- 
ple who produce them. Occasionally pictures are pur- 
chased. 

MOTION PICTURE CLASSIC, 175 DUFFIELD 
STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. Monthly. 
Edwin M. LaRoche, Editor. Always looking for in- 
terviews, personality articles, chats with prominent 
players, stories of studio life, and anything of interest 
to motion picture fans, especially if well illustrated. 
Some very short verse used. 



134 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

MOTION PICTURE MAGAZINE, 175 DUF- 
FIELD STREET, BROOKLYN, NEW YORK. 
Monthly. Edwin M. LaRoche, Editor. This is by 
far the largest and most important motion-picture 
journal. It leads them all. Will consider special ar- 
ticles about motion-picture players, producers of mo- 
tion pictures, and other short articles of interest to 
motion-picture fans. 

MOTOGRAPHY, MONADNOCK BLDG., 
CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Paul H. Woodruff, 
Editor. Short trade articles of interest to theatre 
owners, and especially when they treat of advertising 
stunts, etc. 

MOVING PICTURE STORIES, 168 WEST 
23RD STREET, NEW YORK. Weekly. Lu 
Senarens, Editor. Uses short fiction, verse, special 
articles, humor and anecdotes, and photographs relat- 
ing to the movies. 

THE PHOTODRAMA SYNDICATE, 2.7 WEST 
35TH STREET, NEW YORK. Albert G. Schwartz, 
Managing Editor. Uses a little material similar to that 
used in Motion Picture Magazine. 

THE PHOTOPLAY JOURNAL, NEVADA 
BLDG., CINCINNATI, OHIO. Weekly. J. 
Robert, Thomas, Editor. Uses short-stories about the 
movies. 

PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINE, 350 NORTH 
CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
James R. Quirk, Editor. Short motion-picture fiction, 
articles and verse relating to the movies, and some hu- 
mor and anecdotes relating to the same thing. 

PICTURE-PLAY MAGAZINE, 79 SEVENTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Monthly. Charles 
Satchell, Editor. Uses some fiction of from 3,500 
to 4,000 words relating to the "movies." Especially 



PHOTOPLAY MAGAZINES 135 

wants short, chatty articles about moving pictures and 
moving picture people. Also anxious to get good 
photographs accompanied by short articles relating to 
the "movies." A little verse is also used. 

SHADOWLAND, 175 DUFFIELD STREET, 
BROOKLYN, N. Y. Monthly. Frederick J. Smith, 
Editor. This is a new magazine gotten out by the 
publishers of Motion Picture Magazine and Classic. 
It is said to be the de luxe magazine of the stage, 
screen and associated arts. It claims to be the most 
beautiful magazine published. Purchases poems, 
short fillers and some short-stories and playlets deal- 
ing with the stage or the film studios. 



CHAPTER XV 
DRAMATIC AND THEATRICAL JOURNALS. 

BILLBOARD, 25 OPERA PLACE, CINCIN- 
NATI, OHIO. Weekly. W. J. Page, Editor. In 
their spring and Christmas numbers they use fiction 
and special articles of from 3,000 to 6,000 words re- 
lated to the show business. 

DRAMA, 736 MARQUETTE BLDG., 
CHICAGO, ILL. Quarterly. Theodore B. Hinck- 
ley, Editor. Uses articles relating to the drama, the 
dance, and allied subjects. 

DRAMATIC MIRROR OF MOTION PIC- 
TURES AND THE STAGE, 243 WEST 39TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Weekly. Louis R. Reid, 
Editor. Special articles relating to the stage and also 
photographs relating to the same. 

FOYER, 3339 LANCASTER AVENUE, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. Monthly. Uses verse, serials, and 
good stories to be published in book form. 

LITTLE THEATRE MAGAZINE, 170 SEC- 
OND STREET, SAN FRANCISCO, CALIF. 
Adrian Metzger, Editor. Uses special articles, hu- 
mor, and verse related to "little theatres." 

LYCEUM MAGAZINE, 1247 PEOPLE'S GAS 
BLDG., CHICAGO, ILL r Monthly. Ralph 
Parlette, Editor. Uses articles devoted to the Lyceum 
and Chautauqua field. 

THEATRE MAGAZINE, 8 WEST 38TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Arthur Horn- 
blow, Editor. The leading theatrical magazine. Uses 
special articles of about 1,500 words on almost any 



DRAMATIC AND THEATRICAL JOURNALS 137 

phase of the drama. Also humor, verse, and anec- 
dotes, together with photographs of a theatrical char- 
acter. 

VANITY FAIR, 449 FOURTH AVENUE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. See Women's and Household 
Periodicals. 

VARIETY, 1536 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
Weekly. Sime Silverman, Editor. Uses articles re- 
lating to the vaudeville stage. 



CHAPTER XVI 
PRODUCERS OF PLAYS. 

WINTHROP AMES, 240 WEST 44TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Will consider general 
dramas. 

THE ACTOR'S AND AUTHOR'S THEATER, 
INC., 224 WEST 52ND STREET, NEW YORK. 
Mrs. Thomas A. Wise. Will consider any kind of a 
long or short play. 

JAMES J. ARMSTRONG, 701 SEVENTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Produces short plays and 
comedy acts for vaudeville. 

ARTS AND CRAFTS THEATRE, 25 WAT- 
SON STREET, DETROIT, MICH. Uses one-act 
plays, comedies, farces and serious material. 

DAVID BELASCO, 115 WEST 44TH STREET, 
NEW YORK. General dramas. 

WILLIAM A. BRADY, 137 WEST 48TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Comedies, society dramas, 
war-plays, melodramas and some vaudeville acts. 

GEORGE BROADHURST, 235 WEST 44TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. General dramas. 

BROOKLYN REPERTORY THEATRE, 1482 
BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Dramas, mystery 
plays, farces, comedies, one-act plays. All manu- 
scripts must be of very general interest and should 
deal with present day American life if possible. Pro- 
duces on a royalty basis. 

CHICAGO LITTLE THEATRE, 4800 LAKE 



PRODUCERS OF PLAYS 139 

PARK AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Maurice 
Browne, Director. One-act plays. 

COHAN AND HARRIS, 226 WEST 42ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. Always on the lookout for 
all kinds of clean, wholesome plays. 

COMSTOCK AND GEST, INC., 104 WEST 
39TH STREET, NEW YORK. Looking for big 
musical productions. 

JOHN CORT, 1476 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
Melodramas, comedies, farces, operettas and musical 
comedies. 

DARCY AND WOLFORD, 1402 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. Dramas, melodramas, comedies, 
farces, musical comedies and mystery plays. 

CHARLES DILLINGHAM, BROADWAY & 
46TH STREET, NEW YORK. Strong dramas and 
melodramas with lots of action. 

THE GREENWICH VILLAGE THEATRE, 
SEVENTH AVENUE & 4TH ST., NEW YORK. 
Frank Conroy, Director. Uses dramas, mystery 
plays, farces, comedies, and one-act plays. Also now 
producing big musical plays along the line of Ziegfeld 
"Follies." 

HARRISON GREY FISKE, 12 WEST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Comedies, serious dramas 
and occasional farces. Especially wants American 
comedies of modern life. Originally handled, skil- 
fully developed in a brilliant manner. Especially 
wants work of distinction. 

CHARLES FROHMAN, INC., EMPIRE THEA- 
TRE, NEW YORK. All kinds of plays. 

DANIEL FROHMAN, 149 WEST 45TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Serious dramas, comedies, 
comedy-dramas. 



140 • HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

ARTHUR HAMMERSTEIN'S PRODUC- 
TIONS, 105 WEST 40TH STREET, NEW YORK. 
General types of play. 

MAX HART, 1564 BROADWAY, NEW YORK. 
Vaudeville sketches, one-act plays and playlets. 

EDWIN HOPKINS, PALACE THEATRE 
BLDG., NEW YORK. Serious dramas of from 
three to four acts containing 14,000 to 16,000 words. 
Also high class melodramas, comedies and farces. 
Some twenty minute vaudeville sketches and one-act 
plays containing 2,000 to 3,000 words of dialogue. 
Especially anxious to get human-interest comedy- 
dramas. 

HULL-HOUSE PLAYERS, 800 SOUTH 
HALSTED STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Uses 
dramas, comedies, farces, and one-act plays. 

KLAW & ERLANGER, 214 WEST 42ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. On the lookout for all 
kinds of material. 

LITTLE THEATRE, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. 
Frank C. Egan, Director. Uses three-act comedies or 
farces of about 9,000 words. 

THE LITTLE THEATRE, 17TH AND DE- 
LANCEY STREETS, PHILA., PA. Beulah E. Jay, 
Director. Wants regular full-length plays both seri- 
ous and comedy. 

HENRY MILLER, 214 WEST 43RD STREET, 
NEW YORK. General dramas. 

THE MONTCLAIR PLAYERS, MONTCLAIR, 
N. J. Secretary-Treasurer, Alice R. Brower. Anx- 
ious to get one, two and three-act plays, but must be 
of high type. Period plays as well as those with 
modern settings are desired. 



PRODUCERS OF PLAYS 141 

OLIVER MOROSCO, 748 SOUTH BROAD- 
WAY, LOS ANGELES, CALIF. Serious dramas, 
comedies, farces and musical comedies. 

ORPHEUM CIRCUIT CO., 1564 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. Occasionally produces vaudeville 
sketches. 

' JOHN C. PEEBLES, 1002 PALACE THEA- 
TRE BLDG., NEW YORK. Vaudeville sketches 
and one-act plays. 

POLLS CIRCUIT, 1493 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Produces summer stock companies. 

THE PRINCE ST. PLAYERS, 1 ARGYLE 
STREET, ROCHESTER, N. Y. Anne W. O'Ryan, 
Director. Uses serious dramas, mystery plays, come- 
dies, farces and one-act plays. Do not want male ac- 
tors if they can be avoided. 

BENJAMIN A. ROLFE, 725 SEVENTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Serious dramas which can be 
made into moving pictures. 

MAURICE H. ROSE AND JACK CURTIS, 1564 
BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Vaudeville sketches 
and one-act plays. 

ST. FRANCIS' LITTLE THEATRE CLUB, 
ST. FRANCIS HOTEL, SAN FRANCISCO, 
CALIF. Serious dramas, melodramas, mystery 
plays, comedies, farces and one-act plays. Is espe- 
cially anxious to get one-act plays. 

SANGER & JORDAN, TIMES BLDG., NEW 
YORK. Gerald F. Bacon, Manager. These people are 
play brokers. They handle all kinds of plays, dramas, 
melodramas, picture plays, comedies, farces, musical 
comedies, etc., but their plays must be by well-estab- 
lished authors. They charge a reading fee of ten 
dollars on all manuscripts submitted to them. The 



142 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

plays are read and the author advised as to their merit. 
Acceptance of reading fee does not obligate further 
than a careful reading of the plays. Plays are sold 
on commission of from ten per cent up, according to 
contracts. 

HENRY W. SAVAGE, 226 WEST 42ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. Comedies and strong so- 
ciety plays. 

PAUL SCOTT, 1402 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Play broker. 

SAM S. AND LEE SHUBERT, INC., 225 WEST 
44TH STREET, NEW YORK. Wants comedies, 
farces and musical plays. 

STAIR AND NICOLAI, 1493 BROADWAY, 
NEW YORK. Three-act comedies, farces and two- 
act musical comedies. 

THE STUART WALKER COMPANY, 
CARNEGIE BLDG., NEW YORK. Harold Hols- 
tein. Manager. Uses dramas, melodramas, mystery 
plays, comedies. 

THE UNITED BOOK OFFICES, 1564 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK. Sometimes produces vaude- 
ville sketches. 

WAGENHALS & KEMPER, 1531 BROAD- 
WAY, NEW YORK. Serious dramas, comedies, 
melodramas and farces for four-act plays. 

THE WASHINGTON SQUARE PLAYERS, 131 
WEST 4 1 ST STREET, NEW YORK. Uses one- 
act plays and regular dramas and comedies. 

NED WAYBURN, INC., NEW AMSTERDAM 
THEATRE, NEW YORK. Produces plays, bur- 
lesques and comedies. 



PRODUCERS OF PLAYS 143 

ROLAND WEST, 260 WEST 42ND STREET, 
NEW YORK. Uses dramas, mystery plays, melo- 
dramas, comedies, one-act plays. 

A. H. WOODS, 1495 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Uses three and four-act dramas, melo- 
dramas, mystery plays, farces and comedies. 

FLORENZ ZIEGFELD, JR., 214 WEST 42ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. Producer of the famous 
Ziegfeld "Follies." Uses only highest-class material 
in his line. 



CHAPTER XVII 
MUSICAL MAGAZINES. 

CHOIR, 528 ELM STREET, CINCINNATI, 
OHIO. Monthly. Uses articles which will appeal to 
church organists, choir leaders and soloists. 

CHOIR HERALD, DAYTON, OHIO. Monthly. 
E. S. Lorenz, Editor. Wants articles of interest to 
church organists, choir directors and singers. Also 
sacred songs and anthems; solos, duets, gospel songs 
and choruses. 

CHOIR LEADER, DAYTON, OHIO. Monthly. 
E. S. Lorenz, Editor. Articles on church choir sub- 
jects and anthems. 

CRESCENDO, 165 TREMONT STREET, BOS- 
TON, MASS. Monthly. Herbert Forrest Odell, 
Editor. Articles of from 1,000 to 1,100 words on the 
mandolin, guitar, banjo, ukulele, etc. 

DIAPASON, 306 SOUTH WABASH AVENUE, 
CHICAGO, ILL. S. E. Greustein, Editor. Uses ar- 
ticles relating to organs, organists and organ construc- 
tion. 

ETUDE, 1712 CHESTNUT STREET, PHILA- 
DELPHIA, PA. Monthly. James Francis Cook. 
Editor. Sometimes uses musical stories with unusual 
human-interest. Anxious to get the highest class and 
most interesting articles on music, especially if from 
400 to 700 words in length. Uses articles for depart- 
ments on voice, organ, violin and child music study. 

EUREKA MESSENGER, STIGLER, OKLA. 
Monthly. S. J. Oslin, Editor. Uses articles, photo- 
graphs and verse. 



MUSICAL MAGAZINES 145 

METRONOME, 48 COOPER SQUARE, NEW 
YORK. Monthly. Gustav Saenger, Editor. Uses 
short articles of interest to musicians. 

MUSICAL COURIER, 37 FIFTH AVENUE, 
NEW YORK. Weekly. Leonard Liebling, Editor. 
Uses articles on musical subjects, and also humor and 
anecdotes on the same subject, together with photo- 
graphs. 

MUSICAL ENTERPRISE, CAMDEN, N. J. 
Monthly. W. M. Kain, Editor. Wants instructive 
articles relating to bands and orchestras. Also uses 
photographs and write-ups of bands and orchestras. 

MUSICAL LEADER, 332 MICHIGAN AVE- 
NUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Weekly. Florence French, 
Editor. Informative articles dealing with music. 

MUSICAL OBSERVER, 46 COOPER SQUARE, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. Gustav Saenger, Editor. 
Wants articles relating to piano teaching; must be 
helpful to teachers and students. 

THE MUSICIAN, 150 TREMONT STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. W. J. Baltzell, Edi- 
tor. Uses musical articles on a wide list of subjects, 
including personal efficiency, teaching, development, 
study, biography, etc. 

NEW MUSIC REVIEW AND CHURCH 
MUSIC REVIEW, 2 WEST 45TH STREET, NEW 
YORK. H. W. Gray, Editor. Authoritative ar- 
ticles on the theory of music; also write-ups of present- 
day composers. 

VIOLIN WORLD, 42 EAST 33RD STREET, 
NEW YORK. Monthly. August Gemunder, Edi- 
tor. Uses short stories relating to music and espe- 
cially to violin. Some appropriate humor and anec- 
dotes used. 



CHAPTER XVIII. 

ART MAGAZINES. 

AMERICAN ART NEWS, 15 EAST 40TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Weekly and semi-month- 
ly. James B. Townsend, Editor. Uses photographs 
of pictures, sculpture, and other works of art having 
a national news value. 

AMERICAN MAGAZINE OF ART, 1741 NEW 
YORK AVENUE, WASHINGTON, D. C. Month- 
ly. Leila Mechlin, Editor. Special articles relating 
to art. 

ART AND ARCHAEOLOGY, THE OCTAGON, 
WASHINGTON, D. C. Monthly. David Moore 
Robinson, Editor. Special articles relating to art and 
archaeology. Also large, full-page photographs. 

ART IN AMERICA, 1790 BROADWAY, NEW 
YORK. Bi-monthly. Frederic F. Sherman, Editor. 
Articles on important works of art, both in public and 
private collections in United States and Canada, es- 
pecially when illustrated. 

THE ART WORLD AND ARTS & DECORA- 
TION, 470 FOURTH AVE., NEW YORK. Month- 
ly. Uses articles on the fine arts and interior decora- 
tion. Must not be over 2,000 words in length. Can 
use photographs of interiors and art subjects, antiques, 
etc. 

FINE ARTS JOURNAL, 30 NORTH MICHI- 
GAN AVENUE, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. F. J. 
Campbell, Editor. Will accept art material from peo- 
ple who can speak authoritatively. Contributors 
should consult editors before submitting work. 

KERAMIC STUDIO, SYRACUSE. N. Y 



ART MAGAZINES 147 

Monthly. Mrs. Adelaide Alsop-Robineau, Editor. 
Technical articles relating to china painting, pottery 
work and china decorations. Also photographs relat- 
ing to this subject. 

MODERN ART COLLECTOR, 17 WEST 38TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Monthly. Designs and 
drawings relating to art. 

SCHOOL ARTS MAGAZINE, 25 FOSTER 
STREET, WORCESTER, MASS. Monthly. Anna 
L. Cobb, Editor. Uses articles relating to drawing, 
manual training and industrial art for schools. Also 
wants photographs when accompanied by short de- 
scriptions. 



CHAPTER XIX. 
MARKETS FOR VERSE. 

Notice. — Below we have given a list of the maga- 
zines that deal only with verse. The poet should bear 
in mind, however, that these are not the only maga- 
zines using verse. Nearly all magazines use more or 
less in every number. In fact, by referring to other 
chapters of this book, such as Standard Magazines 
or Women's and Household Periodicals, the reader 
will find that nearly all of the magazines listed therein 
are in the market for verse of one type or another. 
In other chapters you will find the verse requirements 
of the different magazines given in detail, so we have 
not gone to the trouble to repeat them in this chapter. 

It is important to remember that practically all mag- 
azines use more or less verse, and that their require- 
ments are given in detail in other chapters of this 
book. 

AJAX, ALTON, ILL. Monthly. C. Victor Stahl, 
Editor. A small magazine of orthodox poetry. 
Prints nothing but verse and reviews of books of verse. 

CONTEMPORARY VERSE, 622 SOUTH 
WASHINGTON SQUARE, PHILA., PA. Month- 
ly. James E. Richardson, Editor. Uses original 
poetry and translations only. 

OTHERS, 63 WEST ONTARIO STREET, 
CHICAGO, ILL. William Saphier, Editor. Uses 
radical verse. 

POET LORE, 194 BOYLSTON STREET, BOS- 
TON, MASS. Ruth Hill, Editor. Quarterly. 
Wants original and translated poetry of all lengths; ar- 
ticles dealing with author's books, etc. ; original foreign 
plays ; one-act plays. 



MARKETS FOR VERSE 149 

POETRY, A MAGAZINE OF VERSE, 543 
CASS STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Monthly. 
Harriet Monroe, Editor. Wants either conservative 
or radical verse — but it must be the best. 

THE POETRY JOURNAL, COPLEY THEA- 
TER BLDG., BOSTON, MASS. Monthly. Ed- 
mund R. Brown, Editor. Wants all kinds of verse 
regardless of lengths. 

THE SONNET, FIRST NATIONAL BANK 
BLDG., WILLIAMSPORT, PA. Monthly. Mahlom 
Leonard Fisher, Editor. Publishes sonnets of the 
most distinguished and noted American and English 
writers. 



CHAPTER XX. 

BOOK PUBLISHERS. 

, HENRY ALTEMUS COMPANY, 1326 VINE 
STREET, PHILA., PA. Wants juvenile animal 
stories. 

AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY, 100 WASH- 
INGTON SQUARE, NEW YORK. Publishes edu- 
cational text-books for kindergarten, primary schools, 
secondary schools, high schools and colleges. 

D. APPLETON & CO., 35 WEST 32ND 
STREET, NEW YORK. Publishes juvenile fiction 
of from 50,000 to 60,000 words. Adult fiction from 
70,000 to 80,000 words; also travel, biographical, 
poetical, educational and technical books. 

BECKLEY-CARDY COMPANY, 312 WEST 
RANDOLPH STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Chil- 
dren's stories of about 20,000 words. Also collec- 
tions of verse for recitations by children. Features 
reference books, books on education, etc. 

BOBBS-MERRILL COMPANY, INDIAN- 
APOLIS, IND. Wants adult fiction of any length; 
also books of travel, biography, serious books and 
educational works. 

A. L. BURT COMPANY, 114 EAST 23RD 
STREET, NEW YORK. Wants juvenile fiction. 

BRENTANO'S, FIFTH AVENUE AND 27TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Publish novels by foreign 
and American authors and specialize in gift books. 

THE BRITTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, 
406 W. 3 1 ST ST, NEW YORK. Wants adult fie- 



BOOK PUBLISHERS - * 151 

tion of 75,000 to 100,000 words and juvenile fiction 
of 70,000 words; also books of travel and biography. 

BURTON PUBLISHING COMPANY, KANSAS 
CITY, MO. Wants any kind of good books from 
fiction to science. 

THE CENTURY COMPANY, 353 FOURTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Publishes every imagin- 
able kind of book. Always wants manuscripts. 

THOMAS Y. CROWELL & COMPANY, 426 
WEST BROADWAY, NEW YORK. Wants adult 
fiction of 75,000 to 100,000 words; also juvenile books, 
travel, biography, war books and books of reference. 

DODD, MEAD & COMPANY, FOURTH AVE- 
NUE AND 30TH STREET, NEW YORK. Pub- 
lishes adult fiction of 25,000 to 100,000 words; also 
50,000 to 60,000-word children's books, together with 
books on travel, biography and poetry. 

DODGE PUBLISHING COMPANY, 461 
EIGHTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Wants all 
kinds of books. 

M. A. DONOHUE & COMPANY, 701 SOUTH 
DEARBORN STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Uses 
adult fiction of from 40,000 to 60,000 words, juvenile 
fiction, travel, biography, serious books and poetry. 

GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY, 244 MADI- 
SON AVENUE, NEW YORK. Wants fiction of 
any length, juvenile fiction, illustrated books, serious 
books, books of travel and biography and poetry. 

DOUBLED AY PAGE & COMPANY, GARDEN 
CITY, L. L, N. Y. Publish all kinds of books, but 
are especially anxious to get popular adult fiction of 
any length. 

E. P. DUTTON & COMPANY, 681 FIFTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Publish adult fiction, 



152 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

juvenile fiction, illustrated books, serious books, books 
of travel, biography, poetry and a few educational 
and technical volumes. 

FUNK & WAGNALLS COMPANY, 360 
FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Wants illus- 
trated books, books of travel and biography, and edu- 
cational and serious books. 

GINN & COMPANY, 29 BEACON STREET, 
BOSTON, MASS. Publish all kinds of educational 
books. 

HARPER & BROTHERS, FRANKLIN 
SQUARE, NEW YORK. Large publishers who 
want all kinds of books, and especially adult fiction of 
from 20,000 to 100,000 words, 60,000 words being the 
preferred length. 

D. C. HEATH & COMPANY, 120 BOYLSTON 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Large educational 
publishers of foreign texts, especially French. 

HENRY HOLT & COMPANY, 34 WEST 33RD 
STREET, NEW YORK. Wants fiction, travel 
books, biographies, illustrated works, poetry, educa- 
tional, and technical books. 

HOUGHTON, MIFFLIN COMPANY, 4 PARK 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Wants adult fiction 
from 80,000 to 100,000 words. This fiction may be 
of almost any nature. Also wants popular juvenile 
books, illustrated books, travel, biography and educa- 
tional books and a little poetry. 

LAIRD & LEE, CHICAGO, ILL. Wants illus- 
trated books, books of travel, biography, educational 
and technical matter. Uses some business books. 

J. B. LIPPINCOTT COMPANY, WASHING- 
TON SQUARE, PHILA., PA. Wants adult fiction 
of from 75,000 to 95,000 words; juvenile fiction from 



BOOK PUBLISHERS 153 

45,000 to 75,000 words. Also uses a few holiday gift 
books and illustrated books, books of travel and biog- 
raphy, and illustrated, educational and technical vol- 
umes. 

LITTLE, BROWN & COMPANY, 34 BEACON 
STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Wants all kinds of 
popular American novels. Also high-class stories for 
boys and girls. Publish some books of travel, biog- 
raphy, memoirs, and personal experiences. Want a 
few educational books. 

LOTHROP, LEE & SHEPARD COMPANY, 93 
FEDERAL STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Wants 
manuscripts of any kind of books that will sell, includ- 
ing fiction for both adults and juveniles, serious books, 
educational, metaphysical, technical and poetical vol- 
umes. This firm is an excellent market for almost 
any kind of a good book. 

A. C. McCLURG & COMPANY, 330 EAST 
OHIO STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. Wants romantic 
novels, juvenile adventure stories, illustrated books, 
serious books, and books of travel, biography and 
poetry. 

MACMILLAN COMPANY, 64 FIFTH AVE- 
NUE, NEW YORK. Wants adult fiction of atmos- 
phere or setting, of character, of plot, or of action and 
adventure. Also juvenile books which teach proper 
conduct, illustrated books, and books of travel, biog- 
raphy, poetry, and education. 

G. P. PUTNAM'S SONS, 2 WEST 45TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Uses good fiction of 80,- 
000 to 100,000 words. Also children's books of any 
length, together with books of travel and biography, 
poetry, education. 

RAND-McNALLY & COMPANY, 540 SOUTH 
CLARK STREET, CHICAGO, ILL. * Want 6,000 



154 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

to 40,000-word stories for children of from 5 to 15 
years. 

THE REILLY & BRITTON COMPANY, 
CHICAGO, ILL. Want human-interest, mystery and 
adventure fiction of not less than 70,000 words. 

SCOTT & SELTZER, INC., 5 WEST 50TH 
STREET, NEW YORK. Will consider good books 
of every description. 

CHARLES SCRIBNER'S SONS, 599 FIFTH 
AVENUE, NEW YORK. Publish all kinds of 
adult fiction of from 75,000 to 100,000 words, provid- 
ing it is high-class in character. 

SMALL, MAYNARD & COMPANY, 15 
BEACON STREET, BOSTON, MASS. Want 
adult fiction of from 60,000 to 125,000 words. Also 
juvenile fiction, books of travel, poetry and technical 
subjects. 

FREDERICK A. STOKES COMPANY, 443 
FOURTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. Want high- 
class adult fiction, instructive juvenile fiction, books of 
travel, biography, poetry, and also educational and 
technical volumes. 



CHAPTER XXL 
FOREIGN PERIODICALS. 

AGRICULTURAL ECONOMIST AND HOR- 
TICULTURAL REVIEW, 92 LONG ACRE, LON- 
DON, W. C. Monthly. Wants articles or photo- 
graphs dealing with agricultural, horticulture and other 
questions relating to the land. 

AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHER AND PHOTO- 
GRAPHIC NEWS, 52 LONG ACRE, LONDON, 
W. C. Weekly. Wants pictorial, educational and 
descriptive articles relating to photography and allied 
subjects. 

ATHENAEUM, 10 ADELPHI TERRACE, 
LONDON, W. C, 2. Monthly. Wants articles of 
a high literary character along special research lines. 

THE AUTOCAR, MESSRS. ILIFFE & SONS, 
LTD., 20 TUDOR ST., LONDON, E. C. Weekly. 
Wants news articles relating to motors if not over 
2,500 words in length. 

BLACKWOOD'S MAGAZINE, 45 GEORGE 
STREET, EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. Monthly. 
Wants articles about literature, travel, politics, the 
navy and other topics of the day. Publishes many 
high-class stories of from 3,000 to 5,000 words. 

BYSTANDER, GRAPHIC OFFICE, TALLIS 
STREET, LONDON, E. C. Weekly. Publishes 
short stories from 1,500 to 2,000 words. Also uses 
photographs, humorous drawing, and light skits and 
ideas of from 500 to 800 words. 

CHAMBERS'S JOURNAL, 339 HIGH STREET, 
EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND. Monthly. Uses 



156 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

serials from 80,000 to 90,000 words and short stories 
from 3,000 to 12,000 words. Powerful, wholesome 
material wanted. 

COUNTRY LIFE, 20 TAVISTOCK STREET, 
STRAND, LONDON, W. C. Weekly. Wants ar- 
ticles relating to country life, art, sports, etc., prefer- 
ably illustrated. 

ELECTRICAL TIMES, SARDINIA HOUSE, 
KINGSWAY, LONDON, W. C. Uses all kinds of 
material relating to electricity and electrical engineer- 
ing. 

THE ENGLISHWOMAN, 11 HAYMARKET, 
LONDON, S. W. 1. Monthly. Wants articles of 
from 3,000 to 4,000 words of interest to women. 

GARDENERS' CHRONICLE, 41 WELLING- 
TON STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W. C. 
Weekly. Wants articles of not over 1,000 words 
dealing with scientific and practical horticulture. 

GIRLS' FRIEND, CARE AMALGAMATED 
PRESS, LTD., FARRINGTON STREET, LON- 
DON, E. C. Weekly. Uses serials of from 70,000 
to 100,000 words if interesting to girls. Also short 
stories of about 6,000 words. 

NOVEL MAGAZINE, 18 HENRIETTA 
STREET, LONDON, W. C. 2. Monthly. Eager 
to get stories of from 4,000 to 6,000 words ; also serials 
of from 30,000 to 40,000 words, and some short, hu- 
morous verse. 

PUNCH, 10 BOUVERIE STREET, FLEET 
STREET, LONDON, E. C. Weekly. Like the 
American "Life." Uses all kinds of humor. 

STUDIES, 35 LOWER KEESON STREET, 
DUBLIN, IRELAND. Uses articles of 5,000 words 



FOREIGN PERIODICALS 157 

or less, dealing with Irish letters, philosophy and sci- 
ence. 

WINDSOR MAGAZINE, SALISBURY 

SQUARE, LONDON, E. C. Monthly. Uses short 
stories of love and adventure, mystery and romance. 
Stories of 4,000 words preferred. 

YOUNG ENGLAND, 57 LUDGATE HILL, 
LONDON, E. C. Monthly. Wants short boys' 
stories and boys' serials of about 70,000 words. Also 
uses some illustrated articles relating to travel, sport, 
etc. 



CHAPTER XXII. 
FOREIGN BOOK PUBLISHERS, 

ALDINE PUBLISHING CO., LTD., i, 2, and 3 
CROWN COURT, CHANCERY LANE, LON- 
DON, W. C. Wants all kinds of general fiction. 

ALEXANDER AND SHEPHEARD, LTD., 
ROLLS BLDG., LONDON ST., LONDON, W. C. 

Use all type of books. 

GEORGE AND UN WIN ALLEN, LTD., RUS- 
KIN HOUSE, 40 MUSEUM ST., LONDON, W. C. 
Especially want books relating to art, sociology, his- 
tory and literature. 

A. AND C. BLACK, LTD., 4, 5 and 6 SOHO 
SQUARE, LONDON, W. Publish general fiction 
and educational books. Always in the market for 
books of travel. 

BLACKIE AND SON, LTD., 50 OLD BAILEY, 
LONDON, E. C. Publish general and educational 
books and specialize in juvenile fiction. 

CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS, ST. 
DUNSTAN'S HOUSE, FETTER LANE, LON- 
DON, E. C. Wants all kinds of educational books. 

CASSELL AND CO., LTD., LA BELLE 
SAUVAGE, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E. C. 
Publish illustrated books, educational books, adult and 
juvenile fiction and books of practically every descrip- 
tion. 

CHAPMAN AND HALL, LTD., 11 HENRI- 
ETTA STREET, LONDON, W. C. Use fiction, 
travel books, and scientific and technical volumes. 



FOREIGN BOOK PUBLISHERS 159 

CONSTABLE AND CO., LTD., 10 ORANGE 
STREET, LEICESTER SQ., LONDON, W. C. 
Publish books of biography, fiction, travel, and techni- 
cal and medical productions. 

DUCKWORTH AND CO., 3 HENRIETTA 
STREET, LONDON, W. C. Want books relating 
to art; also fairy-tales, folk-lore and considerable fic- 
tion. 

EVERETT AND CO., LTD, 42 ESSEX 
STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W. C. Want fic- 
tion relating to sports, dogs, horses and outdoor life. 

GAY AND HANCOCK, LTD., 12 and 13 HEN- 
RIETTA STREET, W. C, LONDON, W. C. Pub- 
lish all kinds of books and are glad to get successful 
books by American authors. 

GEORGE G. HARRAP AND CO, 3 PORTS- 
MOUTH STREET : KINGSWAY, LONDON, W. 
C. Publish general literature, gift books, and edu- 
cational works. 

WILLIAM HEINEMANN, 2 and 21 BEDFORD 
STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W. C. Publishes 
fiction and a number of books relating to art, drama, 
history, and allied subjects. 

JOHN HEYWOOD, LTD, 20 ST. BRIDE 
STREET, LONDON, E. C. Publishes fiction; also 
educational, technical and school books. 

HERBERT JENKINS, LTD, 12 ARUNDEL 
PLACE, HAYMARKET, LONDON, S. W. Es- 
pecially anxious to get entertaining fiction. 

T. WERNER LAURIE, 8 ESSEX STREET, 
STRAND, LONDON, W. C. Wants fiction of a 
general nature ; also travel and general books. 

ERSKINE MACDONALD, 16 FEATHER- 






160 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

STONE BLDGS., LONDON, W. C. In the market 
for poetry and fiction. 

JOHN MURRAY, 50 A ALBEMARLE 
STREET, LONDON, W. Publishes educational 
books, technical productions and all kinds of high- 
class fiction. 

C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LTD., 17 HENRI- 
ETTA STREET, LONDON, W. C. Publishes all 
kinds of literature and fiction. 

SCOTT, GREENWOOD AND SON, 8 BROAD- 
WAY, LUDGATE HILL, LONDON, E. C. Handle 
technical books exclusively. 

WARD, LOCK AND CO., LTD., WARWICK 
HOUSE, SALISBURY SQUARE, LONDON, E. 
C. Publish general fiction by established writers. 

F. V. WHITE AND CO., 17 BUCKINGHAM 
STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W. C Are in the 
market for all kinds of general fiction. 



CHAPTER XXIII. 

AGENCIES THAT SELL MANUSCRIPTS ON 
COMMISSION. 

The reader may be surprised at the briefness of the 
following list, but the same truth holds good with 
Literary Agencies and Brokerages as with other 
things : Good things come in small packages. 

Very few, if any, of the following agencies adver- 
tise to secure patronage; they do not have to, for the 
unsurpassed service they render to their clientele 
among authors and among editors, has secured for 
them a reputation and a confidence that is passed on 
from editor to editor, from author to author. Usually, 
as soon as a new name appears upon the horizon of 
Magazinedom, one or more of these agencies gets in 
touch with the New Arrival and requests to be allowed 
to handle his work on a certain commission basis. 
Or the New Arrival may be referred to such an agency 
by the editor of the publication that took his manu- 
script. 

The reader of this book is urged to consider care- 
fully the offers made by various advertised companies 
that pass free of charge upon the merits of manu- 
scripts, then suggest that, for a certain fee, the script 
in question can be revised or made over into an accept- 
able production ready for the market. In fact, the 
beginner is warned against accepting offers emanating 
from such concerns without first considering two 
things : one, that the handling of a manuscript is con- 
tingent upon a certain fee; second, that the privilege 
of paying a certain fee is contingent upon the merit 
of the production, which merit is to be decided by the 
firm itself. With the prospects of a correction fee 
in view, it might not always be possible for the pro- 
prietor or editor of such an establishment to determine 



162 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

without bias the merit of the script or the market 
value of its plot, even with correction. 

In like manner, the aspirant is cautioned against 
being blinded by the praise and subtle flattery prof- 
fered his song poem or his novel by companies that 
fit melodies to verses, at a certain fee, and that allow 
him to publish his own book at a Big Fee, probably 
due to the high cost of paper, ink and other book- 
publishing expenses! Commendation of any sort, es- 
pecially to the Beginner, works a very invidious, 
though thrilling, charm; usually, when flattery enters, 
common sense refuses to linger longer. 

The following companies ask no fees; they deduct, 
merely, certain commissions following the sale of a 
manuscript. If the agency is satisfied with a certain 
manuscript, it proceeds immediately and upon its own 
risk to attempt to dispose of it; necessity sharpens 
such an agency's powers of discernment, for upon 
these powers of sifting the good from the bad rests 
success, for every unsold manuscript works as so much 
deadwood upon marketing facilities. 

The reader is urged to patronize these concerns with 
only the very best work of which he is capable; 
otherwise, he will experience surely and certainly the 
disappointment of having his scripts returned. All of 
these concerns, of course, demand typewritten work. 
Some of them insist upon it. And yet success con- 
sists merely in overcoming just such obstacles. 

Miss F. M. Holly, 156 Fifth Ave., New York 

City. 
Paul R. Reynolds, 70 Fifth Ave., New York City. 
Carl Brandt, ioi Park Ave., New York City. 
Miss Laura D. Wilck, 1476 Broadway, New York 

City. 
Mrs. Ann Watkins, 30 East 34/m St., New York 

City. 
Paget Literary Agency, 500 Fifth Ave., New 

York City. 



CHAPTER XXIV 
THE COPYRIGHT LAW. 

The copyright acts of the United States are based upon Article 
I, Section 8, of the Constitution of the United States, adopted 

1787 : ' ' The Congress shall have power 

to promote the progress of science and. useful arts, "by securing 
for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to 
their respective writings and discoveries." 

The general aet'now in force was passed by Congress March 4, 
1909, to which amendments were made in 1912, 1913, and 1914. 
These acts, of which the following is a digest (dots signifying 
omitted matter) provide: 

Sections I-III 
That any person entitled thereto (see Section VIII) shall have 
the exclusive right to print, reprint, publish, copy, vend the copy- 
righted work ; to translate, dramatize, arrange, adapt ; to deliver 
lectures, sermons, etc.; to represent dramatic works, to make 
records or exhibit or perform; to perform music, make arrange- 
ment or record, as the case may be, of: 

Section IV 

(a) Books, including directories and compilations; 

(b) Periodicals; 

(c) Lectures, sermons, prepared for oral delivery; 

(d) Dramatic compositions; 

(e) Musical compositions; 

(f) Maps; 

(g) "Works of art; 

(h) Reproductions of works of art; 

(i) Drawings or plastic works of a scientific character; 

(j) Photographs; 

(k) Prints and pictorial illustrations; 

(1) Motion picture photoplays; 

(m) Motion pictures other than photoplays; 
to one of which classes the author or maker must assign his work 
when applying for copyright. 

Section VI 
Compilations, abridgments, translations, new editions, drama- 
tizations shall be regarded as new works subject to copyright 
when produced with the consent of the original copyright owner; 
but the publication of any such compilation, abridgment, etc., shall 
not affect the validity of the previous copyright. 

Section VIII 

Persons entitled to apply for and hold copyright protection 

under this act are: Citizens of the United States, their executors, 

administrators and assigns; provided, however, that the copyright 

secured by this Act shall extend to the work of a foreign author 



164 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

or proprietor only when the alien author or proprietor shall be 
domiciled within the United States at the time of the first publi- 
cation of his work, or when the foreign nation has granted 
reciprocal protection to United States authors by international 
agreement.* 

Sections IX-XXXIII 
Steps Necessary to Secure Copyright Eegistration. 

1. Publish the work with the copyright notice. The notice may 
be in the form "COPYRIGHT, 19 (year date of publica- 
tion) by ■ — — (name of copyright 

proprietor) . ' ' The name of the copyright proprietor given in the 
notice should be the true, legal name of the person, firm, or cor- 
poration owning the copyright, and no other. The use of a 
fictitious or assumed name, or the name of any person other than 
the copyright proprietor, may result in the loss of the copyright 
protection. The date in the copyright notice should agree with 
the year date of publication. 

2. Promptly after publication, send to the Copyright Office two 
copies of the best edition of the work, with an application for 
registration and a money order payable to the Eegister of Copy- 
rights for the statutory registration fee of $1. As to special reg- 
istration of photographs, see below In 

the case of Books the copies deposited must be accompanied by 
an affidavit, under the official seal of an officer authorized to ad- 
minister oaths, stating that the type-setting, printing, and bind- 
ing of the book have been performed within the United States. 
Affidavit and application forms will be supplied by the Copyright 

Office on request This affidavit is not required in 

the case of a book of foreign origin in a language or languages 
other than English, nor in the case of a printed play in any 
language, as such works are not required to be manufactured in 
the United States In the case of contri- 
butions to periodicals, send one complete copy of the periodical 
containing the contribution with application and fee. No affidavit 

is required Only one copy is required 

to be deposited in the case of a work by an author who is a 
citizen or subject of a foreign state or nation and that has been 
published in a foreign country. 

For Works Not Eeproduced in Copies For Sale. 
Copyright may also be had of certain classes of works (see a, 

* Copyright relations have been established and are in force 
between the United States and the following countries, and the 
citizens of such countries can secure copyright protection in the 
United States upon compliance with the requirements of the 
Copyright Acts of the United States: Austria, Belgium, Chile, 
China, Costa Rica, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, the British 
Empire, Guatemala, Honduras, Hungary, Italy, Japan, Luxemburg, 
Mexico, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Portugal, Salvador, 
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and Tunis. 



THE COPYRIGHT LAW 165 

b, c, etc., below) of which copies are not reproduced for sale, by 
filing in this office an application for registration, with the stat- 
utory fee of $1, sending therewith: 

(a) In the case of lectures or other oral addresses, or of 
dramatic or musical compositions, one complete manu- 
script or typewritten copy of the work. 

(b) In the case of photographs not intended for general cir- 
culation, one photographic print. As to special fee, see 
below. 

(c) In the case of works of art (paintings, drawings, sculp- 

ture), or of drawings or plastic works of a scientific 
or technical character, one photograph or other identify- 
ing reproduction of the work. 

(d) In the case of motion picture photoplays, a title and de- 
scription, with one print taken from each scene or act. 

(e) In the case of motion pictures other than photoplays, a 
title and description, with not less than two prints taken 
from different sections of a complete motion picture 

In the case of each of the works here noted, not reproduced 
in copies for sale, the law expressly requires that a second de- 
posit of printed copies for registration and the payment of a 
second fee must be made upon publication. 

Section XVIII 
The notice of copyright required by Section IX of this Act 
shall consist either of the word ''Copyright" or the abbrevia- 
tion "Copyr.," ACCOMPANIED BY THE NAME OF THE 
COPYRIGHT PROPRIETOR, and if the work be a printed 
literary, musical, or dramatic work, the notice shall include also 
the year in which the copyright was secured by publication. In 
the case, however, of copies of works specified in sub-sections f to 
k*, inclusive, of Section V of this Act, the notice may consist of 
the letter C inclosed within a circle, thus: (C), accompanied by 
the initials, monogram, mark, or symbol of the copyright pro- 
prietor: PROVIDED, That on * some accessible portion of such 
copies or of the margin, back, permanent base, or pedestal, or of 
the substance on which such copies shall be mounted, his name 
shall appear. But in the case of works in which copyright is sub- 
sisting when this Act shall go into effect, the notice of copyright 
may be either in one of the forms prescribed herein or in one of 
those prescribed by the Act of June eighteenth, eighteen hundred 
and seventy-four. 



* The following are the classes of works ' ' specified in sub-sec- 
tions f to k": 

(f) Maps; 

(g) Works of art; models or designs for works of art; 
(h) Reproductions of a work of art; 

(i) Drawings or plastic work of a scientific or technical 

character ; 
(j) Photographs; 
(k) Prints and pictorial illustrations. 



1 66 HOW TO SELL MANUSCRIPTS 

Section XIX 

The notice of copyright shall be applied, in the case of a book 
or other printed publication, upon its title page or the page im- 
mediately following (the back of the title page), or if a periodical 
either upon the title page or upon the first page of text of each 
separate number or under the title heading, or if a musical work 
either upon its title page or the first page of music: PROVIDED, 
That one notice of copyright in each volume or in each number of 
a newspaper or periodical published shall suffice. 

Section XXXIII 

The copyright secured by the Act endures for twenty-eight years 
from the date of the first publication, whether the copyrighted 
work bears the author's true name or is published anonymously 
or under an assumed name, with the added provision that in the 
case of a posthumous work or of any individual cyclopedic or 
composite work, the author or proprietor shall be entitled to a 
renewal of the copyright for a further term of twenty-eight years 
upon proper application written one year prior to the expiration 
of the original term; but if renewal is not applied for, the copy- 
right protection endures twenty-eight years only. 

Section XXV 
Infringement of copyright shall render the infringer liable: 

(a) To a restraining injunction; 

(b) To pay the proprietor damages as provided in the Act; 

(c) To deliver up infringing article; 

(d) To deliver up all plates and means of making infringing 
articles ; 

(e) To recovery in the case of musical reproductions by civil 
process. 

Section XXVIII 

Performance of religious and secular works, oratories, cantatas, 
masses, rented, borrowed or obtained from a public library, public 
school, church choir, etc., is allowed, provided the performance 
is given for charitable and educational purposes and not for 
profit. 

Section XXIX 

Any person who inserts a false notice of copyright, with fraud- 
ulent intent, or shall remove or alter the copyright notice shall be 
guilty of a misdemeanor, punishable by a fine of from $100 to 
$1,000. 

Sections XXX-XXXI 

The importation into the United States of articles bearing 
false notice, or of piratical copies, is prohibited, except that such 
prohibition shall not apply: 



THE COPYRIGHT LAW 167 

(a) To works for the use of the blind; 

(b) To a foreign newspaper or magazine; 

(c) To the authorized edition of a book in a foreign languge; 

(d) To books published abroad when imported for individual 
use, not for sale, for the use of the United States, or for 
the use of societies, libraries, etc. 

Sections XXXIV-XXXVI 

All actions, suits, or proceedings arising under the copyright 
laws shall be originally cognizable by the circuit courts of the 
United States, the district court of any Territory, the supreme 
court of the District of Columbia, the district courts of Alaska, 
Hawaii, and Porto Kico, and the courts of first instance in the 
Philippine Islands; and suits may be brought in the district of 
which the defendant is an inhabitant, or in which he may be 
found, against whom the court or its judge in said district may 
grant injunction. 

Section XXXIX 

No criminal proceeding shall be maintained unless commenced 
within three years after the cause of action arose. 

Sections XLII-XLVII 

Copyright secured under the act may be assigned, granted, or 
mortgaged, or may be bequeathed by will, if properly assigned and 
executed, and the assignment recorded in the copyright office 
within six calendar months after its execution. The register of 
copyrights shall record such assignment, and the records shall be 
kept and preserved in the copyright office. 

Section LXI 

The fee for the registration of copyright is one dollar, includ- 
ing certificate of registration, except that in the case of photo- 
graphs, where no certificate is demanded, the fee is 50c, for 
every additional certificate 50c, for recording assignments of 
copyright, if not over three hundred words in length, one dollar; 
if more than three hundred and less than one thousand words, 
two dollars; if more than one thousand words, one dollar addi- 
tional for each thousand words; for recording the notice of user 
of copyright, 25c for each notice not over fifty words, and an 
additional 25c for each additional one hundred words; for record- 
ing the renewal of copyright. 50c; for recording the transfer of 
the proprietorship of copyrighted articles, 10c for each title, in 
addition to the fee for recording assignment; for requested search 
of copyright records, deposits, etc., 50c for each hour of time 
so consumed. Only one registration at one fee shall be required 
in the case of several volumes of the same work deposited at one 
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Additional Information. 

Under the copyright law now in force, the first step to take in a 
work intended to be published is to print and publish the work 
with the statutory notice of copyright claim inscribed. 

Promptly after such publication with copyright notice has 
been made, in order to register the copyright claim, send two 
complete copies of the best edition to the Copyright Office, with 
application and the registration fee (money order for $1). 

Manuscripts of novels or other prose words, poems, words of a 
song, etc., or any works legally designated a ' ' book, ' ' should not 
be sent to this office before they have been printed and published, 
as the law does not permit registration of such unpublished 
works. Such manuscripts are protected under the common law, 
and nobody has a right to use them without the consent of the 
owner. 

The Copyright Act expressly provides, ' ' That nothing in this 
Act shall be construed to annul or limit the right of the author 
or proprietor of an unpublished work, at common law or in equity, 
to prevent the copying, publication, or use of such unpublished 
work without his consent, and to obtain damages therefor. " 

Applicants for copyright registration should use the applica- 
tion forms furnished on request by the Copyright Office. A 
separate form should be used for each work to be entered. Be- 
quests for forms should specify the number and kind of forms 
desired, selected from the following list: 

Books. 

For any new book printed and published for the first time in 
the United States, ask for Application Form "Al," and Affidavit 
Form, specifying in the request whether the book is to be printed 
from type or plates made from type, or is to be produced by 
lithographic or photo-engraving process. 

For a reissued book published in the United States, with new 
copyright matter, ask for Application Form "A2. M 

For a book of foreign origin in a language or languages other 
than English, ask for Application Form "A3." 

For ad interim copyright in a book published abroad in the 
English language, ask for Application Form "A4. " 

For the American edition of a book in the English language 
on which ad interim copyright has been previously secured, ask 
for Application Form "Al," and Affidavit Form, specifying in 
the request whether the book is to be printed from type or plates 
made from type, or is to be produced by lithographic or photo- 
engraving process. 

For a contribution to a newspaper or periodical,* ask for Appli- 
cation Form ' ' A5. ' ' 



* It is not necessary for an individual to make such application 
as a rule, for magazine contents are usually protected by the editor 
or publisher. 



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Periodicals. 
For a perodical, if it is desired to make a separate application 
and remittance as each issue appears, ask for Application Form 
"B1." If the fee is to be charged against a trust fund pre- 
viously deposited to cover several issues, ask for Application Form 
"B2." 

Oral Works. 
For a lecture, sermon, or address for oral delivery, ask for 
Application Form "C." 

Dramas. 

For a published dramatic composition, ask for Application 
Form "Dl." 

For a dramatic composition of which copies are not reproduced 
for sale, ask for Application Form l ' D2. ' ' 

For a published dramatico -musical composition, ask for Appli- 
cation Form "D3." 

For a dramatico-musical composition of which copies are not 
reproduced for sale, ask for Application Form "D4." 

Music. 

For a musical composition published for the first time, ask for 
Application Form "E." 

For a musical composition republished with new copyright mat- 
ter, ask for Application Form "El." 

For a musical composition of which copies are not reproduced 
for sale, ask for Application Form "E2. " 

Maps. 
For a published map, ask for Application Form " F. ' ' 

Works of Art. 
For a work of art (painting, drawing or sculpture) ; or for 
model or design for a work of art, ask for Application Form 
"G." 

Drawing or Plastic Work. 

For a published drawing or plastic work of a scientific or tech- 
nical character, ask for Application Form "II. M 

For an unpublished drawing or plastic work of a scientific or 
technical character, ask for Application Form "12." 

Photographs. 

For a photograph published for sale, ask for Application Form 
"Jl." 

For a photograph of which copies are not reproduced for sale, 
ask for Application Form "J2. M 

Prints or Pictorial Illustrations. 
For the registration of any ' ' print ' ' or " pictorial illustration, ' ' 
which is a printed picture, complete in itself and having artistic 
quality, ask for Application Form "K." 



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Motion Pictures. 

For the registration of a motion picture photoplay reproduced 
in copies for sale, ask for Application Form "LI." 

For a motion picture photoplay of which copies are not repro- 
duced for sale, ask for Application Form "L2. " 

For a motion picture, not a photoplay, reproduced in copies for 
sale, ask for Application Form "Ml." 

For a motion picture, not a photoplay, not reproduced in copies 
for sale, ask for Application Form "M2." 

Eenewal or Extension. 

For the renewal of copyright subsisting in any work for the 
new renewal term of 28 years as provided by Section 24 of the 
new law, ask for Eenewal Form "El." 

For the extension of an existing renewal term for 14 years as 
provided under the old law, to 28 years granted by the new law, 
ask for Extension Form ' ' E2. ' ' 

(These renewal forms can only be used within a period of one 
year prior to the expiration of the existing term.) 

No forms are issued by the Copyright Office for assignments, 
or licenses, nor for Postmaster's receipts for articles deposited, 
nor postal franking labels. 

An American author, to obtain copyright in England, must 
first publish in England, or in England and the United States 
simultaneously. 

Mail matter is frequently received at the Copyright Office with 
the wrapper so badly torn that the inclosures are in danger of 
being lost; and reported failures to receive articles mailed may 
sometimes be explained on the ground of the flimsy and insuffi- 
cient wrapping. To guard against such loss the use of stout 
paper and twine in wrapping mail matter destined for the Copy- 
right Office is urged. 

1. Address plainly all mail or express matter Eegister of Copy- 
rights, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 

2. Add on outside of parcel the name and address of sender. 
(Please caution Postmaster not to cover this with his frank 
label) . 

3. Mail the copies, application and fee all at the same time, 
though not necessarily in the same package. These must all be 
at hand before action may be taken. The copies of works sent 
to be registered for copyright may be mailed to the Copyright 
Office free (under Section 14 of the copyright law) if directly 
delivered for that purpose to the Postmaster. The Copyright 
Office cannot furnish any franking labels. 

SPECIAL CAUTION. According to the ruling of the Post- 
office Department the money order (or other remittance) is not 
entitled to free postal transmission. This with the application, 
therefore, should be forwarded separately by mail, under letter 
postage, addressed to the Eegister of Copyrights. If this is done, 
and the application blanks carefully and properly filled out, 
prompt action can be taken and the delay resulting from the need 



THE COPYRIGHT LAW 171 

for correspondence will be eliminated. Do not send currency or 
coin or postage stamps for fee; but preferably a money order. 
Private checks not certified are not acceptable, and if sent will 
necessarily be returned. 

Publications of the Copyright Office. 

The following bulletins and circulars have been issued by the 
Copyright Office and may be had free on request to the Eegister 
of Copyrights, Library of Congress, Washington, D. C. 

Bulletin No. 14 — The Copyright Law of the United States of 
America, being the Act of March 4, 1909 (in force July 1, 1909), 
as amended by the Acts of August 24, 1912, March 2, 1913, and 
March 28, 1914, together with Eules for Practice and Procedure 
under Section 25, by the Supreme Court of the United States. 
72 pp. 8°. 1918. 

Bulletin No. 15 — Eules and Eegulations for the registration of 
claims to copyright. 29 pp. 8°. 1917. 

Bulletin No. 16 — Copyright in England. Act 1 and 2 Geo. 5, 
ch. 46. An Act to amend and consolidate the law relating to copy- 
right, passed December 16, 1911. 54 pp. 8°. 1914. 

Information Circular No. 4 — International Copyright Conven- 
tion. Berne, 1886, and Amendments agreed to at Paris, 1896. 
Also, Additional Protocol to Berlin Convention, signed at Berne, 
March 20, 1914. 17 pp. 4°. 

Information Circular No. 4A — International Copyright Conven- 
tion. Eevised text, Berlin, 1908. 12 pp. 4°. 



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